For your information, fps shown on the diagram is a geometric mean of fps in four different games: Far Cry, DOOM 3, Painkiller, and Unreal Tournament 2004. For this article we decided to use the diagram with the total score for 800x600 and average quality settings, as our shootout includes quite a lot of low-end CPUs. Besides, here we use testbeds with different video cards, one of which is noticeably weaker than the other. So theoretically, a relatively low resolution and an easy graphics quality mode should smooth differences in video performance and bring CPU performance to the foreground. You can easily see that top three places are taken by AMD processors only. That's not surprising, as we all know preferences of modern games. Top ten game results deal a final blow to NetBurst: there are only three processors from Intel in top ten, two of them being... Pentium M! Only the top Pentium 4 eXtreme Edition managed to break through to Place 8(!).

The ten bottom positions are a coup de grace: eight processors from Intel, including all Celeron models tested, and just two AMD Semprons, both for the outdated Socket A (they were tested with a less powerful video card than, for example, Celeron D xxxJ). Thus, the situation in games is so straightforward that it requires no wordy comments. In this very comparison, it would have been very difficult to change the layout of forces, even by adjusting test software: if you read reviews from other independent test labs, you'll understand that AMD processors are leading in practically all modern games, not only in those included into our test procedure.