It's important for us to perform a number of game benchmarks as well as the synthetic tests because it allows us to test the 3D performance. So here we have some popular titles, critically acclaimed and action-packed. FRAPS and in-house benchmarking tools were used to capture average FPS.
In both games, as shown above, the Bulldozer chip performs worse than Phenom II, even though when it was overclocked, its core clock speed was a little higher.