Introducing the New Phenom II 980 BE vs. Core i7-920 – value meets performance again

Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) is a sandbox-style action-adventure video game released by Rockstar in late 2008. It is the sixth game in the Grand Theft Auto series. Two episodic expansion packs have since been released since then as late as April of last year. The game is set in a redesigned rendition of Liberty City, a fictional city based heavily on modern day New York City. It follows Niko Bellic, a war veteran from Eastern Europe. He comes to the United States in search of the American Dream and enters a world of organized crime, gangs and corruption. GTA IV is mostly composed of elements from driving games and third-person shooters which features free-roaming gameplay. It features an online multiplayer mode, the first of the GTA series to do so.

We tested at 1920×1200 and at 2560×1600 resolutions. The in-game menu allowed us to set all of the detail levels to very-high.

This benchmark appears to be at the very least, highly CPU-limited. In GTA-IV, the Core i7-920 is faster and you will want to overclock your Phenom II to get satisfactory play.