Athlon X4 845 Gaming Benchmarks
This is perhaps the most important test of this processor for some. How can it handle a variety of gaming scenarios, and how fast can it really play. Will it provide a stable framerate at the price point, and will it be fast enough for the majority of games that will be played. I’ve already talked a bit about what it’s like to actually use a machine that isn’t precisely bleeding edge. My conclusion is that for the vast majority of use cases, combined with a good I/O backbone, it actually is nearly identical to anything. If you’re okay with keeping some details less than the highest, than you’ll be very happy with this chip. Excavator isn’t expensive, and with a suitable GPU, it can do great things.
The reason we chose to benchmark only with one card is to give you an idea of how it performs in what might be a usual situation. Our choices of cards are limited as a smaller publication, and the GTX 960 is suffering a failing fan at the time these benchmarks were conducted.
All of the games were ran at 1080P, which represents the most commonly used resolution with a processor that in this price-range. We’re under no illusion that this will feed a GPU enough to run 4K at blistering speeds. But what it will do is run the following games very well at differing settings.
The following settings were used for each game:
- The Witcher 3 – Low
- the Witcher 2 – High
- Thief – High
- Tomb Raider – Ultra
- theHunter Primal – High
- Sniper Elite 3 – High
- Sniper Elite V2 – High
- Star Wars: Battlefront – Medium
- Rise of the Tomb Raider – High
- ProjectCARS – High
- Planetside 2 – High
- Payday 2 – Very High
- Need for Speed – High
- Mechwarrior Online – High
- Just Cause 3 – High
- Homefront: The Revolution – Medium
- Hitman: Absolution – High
- Hitman – High
- Hawken – High
- Grand Theft Auto V – Normal
- Forza 6 Apex – Medium
- Fallout 4 – Medium
- Evolve – High
- Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Ultra
- Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind – Highest Possible
- DOOM – Medium
- Dragon Age: Inquisition – High
- The Division – Medium
- DiRT Rally – Ultra
- DiRT 3 – Ultra
- Descent: Underground – High
- Crysis 3 – Medium
- Crysis 2 – Extreme
- The Crew – High
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Medium
- Borderlands 2 – High
- Batman: Arkham Knight – Low
- Batman: Arkham Origins – Very High
- Batman: Arkham City – Very High
- Batman: Arkham Asylum – Very High
- Battlefield: Hardline – Ultra
- Battlefield 4 – Ultra
- Battlefield 3 – Ultra
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – Medium
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag – High
- Ashes of the Singularity – Standard
- ArmA 3 – Highest Possible