Gaming Tests

The gaming applications are very sensitive to the size of L2 cache. The results indicate this clearly. The performance difference between Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and Opteron 165 is not so big despite the 200MHz frequency difference. And in F.E.A.R. the Opteron 165 CPU working at slower frequency even outperforms its counterpart. This is one of the reasons why Opteron 165 gets even ahead of its competitor. Another reason for that is the general adaptation of the K8 architecture for the 3D gaming applications. It manages to easily defeat dual-core Intel Pentium D 920 and 930 processors from the same price range.