L2 cache has huge impact on UT3 performance

maroon1 · 10-21-2007, 11:41 AM

From AnandTech

As you see here E6550 outperformed AMD 6400+ in Unreal Tournament 3, this shows that Unreal Tournament 3 benefit a lot from L2 cache because there were huge difference between the processors that have 4MB cache and the ones that have 2MB or 1MB

If you notice also, Q6600 outperformed the higher clocked E6750. Unreal Tournament is one of the games that can utilize 4 cores

nexolus · 10-21-2007, 07:41 PM

I'm not sure if a 2-3 frame increase from 6750 to the q6600 means it's utilizing all 4 cores... if it were using all 4 then it would probably have a much greater difference. Also maybe the L2 cache doesn't have anything to do with it and the 6750 is just a better processor than the amd 6400+?

INTELCRAZY · 10-21-2007, 07:56 PM

Where's the E6850 on that chart? I would assume for it to be 161.... or slightly above Q6600 but just the L2 though

taylormsj · 10-21-2007, 08:17 PM

I wouldnt look at that and immediatly think its the L2 cache, i would think the E4400 beats the 5000 + because of the core architecture more!

Bradan · 10-22-2007, 01:34 AM

who cares about crazy fps? im goona have settings high with 1680/1050 so my video card is goona bottleneck first anyways.

and realisticly ur going from 130fps-->150fps with 2mb-->4mb cache look at the e4500 and the e6550

[-0MEGA-] · 10-22-2007, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Bradan

who cares about crazy fps? im goona have settings high with 1680/1050 so my video card is goona bottleneck first anyways.

and realisticly ur going from 130fps-->150fps with 2mb-->4mb cache look at the e4500 and the e6550

Lets not forget this is the demo, which doesnt support high-ultra high settings.

Zangetsu · 10-22-2007, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by taylormsj

I wouldnt look at that and immediatly think its the L2 cache, i would think the E4400 beats the 5000 + because of the core architecture more!

That would be a hard one.
And indeed, wait for the full version.

maroon1 · 10-22-2007, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nexolus

I'm not sure if a 2-3 frame increase from 6750 to the q6600 means it's utilizing all 4 cores... if it were using all 4 then it would probably have a much greater difference. Also maybe the L2 cache doesn't have anything to do with it and the 6750 is just a better processor than the amd 6400+?

First of all, if the UT3 can't utilize quad core then Q6600 should perform worse than E6750. It utilize 4 core but you will not see a huge difference between 4 cores and 2 cores because the game is it is not optimized very well for Quad core.

Second note, I'm not the one who is saying that this game benefit a lot from L2 cache but AnandTech is saying that! just look at the other pages.

StrangleHold · 10-22-2007, 03:41 PM

The benchmarks look pretty normal to me, I dont see anything spectacular that jumps out about it. You have some kind of weird fixation for Core 2s and bashing AMD. Why dont you just go buy one?

**apj101** · 10-22-2007, 03:52 PM

that wasnt the best graph from the article, and you confused people with you amd 5000+ talk

what they are saying is that if you take a E6000, E4000 and E2000 series cpu and run it at 1.8ghz, you will see an improvement in the fps corrolates with an increase L2. Now all these chips are pretty much the same architecture.inprovement.

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maroon1 Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Somewhere in Hell !!! Posts: 2,643	L2 cache has huge impact on UT3 performance From AnandTech As you see here E6550 outperformed AMD 6400+ in Unreal Tournament 3, this shows that Unreal Tournament 3 benefit a lot from L2 cache because there were huge difference between the processors that have 4MB cache and the ones that have 2MB or 1MB If you notice also, Q6600 outperformed the higher clocked E6750. Unreal Tournament is one of the games that can utilize 4 cores __________________ Free softwares: Avast! antivirus - FireFox - FDM - OpenOffice - CCleaner

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Bradan Diamond Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Ontario, Canad'eh Posts: 1,052	who cares about crazy fps? im goona have settings high with 1680/1050 so my video card is goona bottleneck first anyways. and realisticly ur going from 130fps-->150fps with 2mb-->4mb cache look at the e4500 and the e6550 __________________ The New Beast: Coolermaster CM 690 4x120mm Corsair 550VX - 41A 12v P5N32-E - 680i SLI Motherboard E7200/3MB Core2Duo@3.7Ghz- AC Freezer 7 Pro Corsair DDR2 6400 5-5-5-15 Asus 8800GT@700/1750/1900 Soundblaster Audigy 4 SE Western Digital SE16 500GB WD5000AAKS

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StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: And you think your safe! Posts: 8,215	The benchmarks look pretty normal to me, I dont see anything spectacular that jumps out about it. You have some kind of weird fixation for Core 2s and bashing AMD. Why dont you just go buy one? __________________ NZXT Apollo Phenom 8750BE 3.0ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066 4gb. PNY 8800GT/VD964 W/D RE2 Sata 3.0 500gb.

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apj101 Administrator Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Age: 26 Posts: 9,262	that wasnt the best graph from the article, and you confused people with you amd 5000+ talk what they are saying is that if you take a E6000, E4000 and E2000 series cpu and run it at 1.8ghz, you will see an improvement in the fps corrolates with an increase L2. Now all these chips are pretty much the same architecture.inprovement. __________________ What did one snow man say to the other? can you smell carrot? The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. How you do anything, is how you do everything!

10-21-2007, 07:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
nexolus Gold Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 472	I'm not sure if a 2-3 frame increase from 6750 to the q6600 means it's utilizing all 4 cores... if it were using all 4 then it would probably have a much greater difference. Also maybe the L2 cache doesn't have anything to do with it and the 6750 is just a better processor than the amd 6400+?

10-21-2007, 07:56 PM	#3 (permalink)
INTELCRAZY banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,060	Where's the E6850 on that chart? I would assume for it to be 161.... or slightly above Q6600 but just the L2 though

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