AMD Fusion A8-3850 Platform Review - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: COP & Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Prior to the game's release, the developer put out a benchmarking tool to test your system configuration. It offers a number of different options for utilizing DX9, 10 or 11 code paths. It also offers options for varying levels of HDAO and Shadow Quality. The demo itself isn't very pretty to look at (lots of dirt and dirt-colors), but it does put a beating on your system.

While none of these cards provides playable frame rates, we can see the improvements over the previous generation. The A8-3850 performs admirably well (assuming you have the right expectations to start with), and fits right where we would expect it to.

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

I've added the Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II benchmark to the current test bench. I wanted to add a more popular RTS than Battle Forge, and this title seems to fit the bill. Unfortunately the A8-3850 won't run the benchmark at max settings. Something on the APU (doubt it's CPU, but not sure why the 1GB GPU has issues either) won't run the test with module quality on high. Thus, there are no scores to report here.