AMD Value Platform Analysis Part 2: The Performance

Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve.  A sequel to Valve’s previous Team Fortress Classic, it was first released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box, which featured games like Half Life 2:Episode 2 and Portal. Team Fortress 2 is focused around two opposing teams competing for an objective. Players can choose to play as one of nine classes in these teams, each with his own unique strengths and weaknesses.

This game gives a good idea of performance of other games based on Valve’s source engine. We are using a custom recorded timedemo for benchmarking.

Here are the settings used:

Using this Value platform you will be able to do some multiplayer gaming pretty comfortably even if you are using 8xAA.

Shown below is the screenshot from Rivatuner showing the CPU and GPU usage with the benchmark running on the HD 4650 Stock Configuration at 1280×1024 resolution.

Here we see a good use of a dual core CPU, but not such a good use of the GPU.

The videos below show the Overclocked HD 4650 configuration running the benchmark. Youtube HD stream is 720p 2Mbps, while the Blip stream is 1080p 6Mbps high quality.