Quote Originally Posted by jimbo75 View Post
Testing games at such low resolution is complete fail and I'm not listening to the BS that it puts the emphasis on the cpu. Benchmarks are supposed to be indicative of real life performance and nobody uses fast graphics cards and cpu's at low resolution. Furthermore, by not benching at enthusiast-level resolutions you run the risk of failing to fully stress the cpu's in that role and will give a false impression as to how much better or worse a certain cpu is at gaming. There's no excuse for it.
By your logic you would test Crysis at 1080p , and conclude that Phenom x4 970 is only marginally slower then I7 sandy , when in reality in other game where CPU is important Phenom is significantly slower.

Thats why you bench at lower res to eliminate GPU dependency and measure CPU potential.

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