Intel Core i5 2300 2400 & 2500K Sandy Bridge Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅03-01-11
Unreal Tournament 3

Unreal Tournament 3 was released in November 2007, making it by some margin, the oldest title tested here, but it still remains very popular as an online FPS and is still the most recent title of the Epic series. Using the Unreal Engine 3, the game is traditionally CPU limited, and provides an interesting insight into CPU gaming performance, especially as a large number of titles have since utilised its friendly game engine since.


Immediately you'll notice that at the highest settings at 1680x1050 0xAA 0xAF the frame rates are extremely high, so even the lowest end Sandy Bridge CPU here with a GTX 460 can happily max out this game.

Being more CPU-limited, we see a better separation of the performance figures, with the expected increase in performance over the 3 Sandy Bridge CPUs being shown clearly. Overclocking the i5 2500K results in a good increase in FPS at these settings, and then, interestingly, puts it ahead of the much lower clocked i7 920. Therefore, we can say, clock for clock, the Bloomfield CPU wins out well over the Sandy Bridge offerings here.



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