AMD Value Platform Analysis Part 2: The Performance

Street Fighter IV

Street Fighter is one of the most popular and historical games. First released by Capcom for arcades in 1987, it has wowed gamers all around the world ever since. Street Fighter IV is the first numbered Street Fighter game released by Capcom for the arcades since 1999. It was released for coin-operated arcade machines in July 2008; for consoles in February, 2009 and the PC got its version in July, 2009. Street Fighter IV sold more than 2.5 million copies since its release.

It features models and backgrounds rendered in 3D while the gameplay takes place in a traditional 2D plane.

A benchmark for the PC version can be downloaded from here.

Here are the settings used:

This is another game that the HD 4650 + Athlon platform is able to play comfortably.

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.

It is interesting to see that this game is not even using 100% of the video card.

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