AMD Athlon II X4 645 3.1GHz Processor/CPU

Testing – 3DMark and PCMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage is still the newest iteration of the 3DMark benchmark, offering a look at how games that support DirectX10 will perform. Note that the scores for any 3DMark result will be affected as much—if not more—by your choice of video card as they will by your CPU.

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While the CPU score is certainly helped by the PhysX acceleration provided by the GeForce GTX 465, what’s interesting to note is just how much the GPU score has jumped from our previous test with this card. Despite the lack of L3 cache, the architectural improvements and clock speed bump are apparently enough to give the X4 645 the edge over the Phenom II X4 910e we had been using previously.

Futuremark’s PCMark Vantage does quite the thorough evaluation, testing your system on a number of practical applications. Unfortunately, it completely fails to report its findings in a useful format, instead opting to assign arbitrary score numbers that are largely meaningless. Still, run enough systems through the same benchmark and you’ll start to see some trends in comparison. Here’s the score for our test system:

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