Call of Duty: Black Ops GPU & CPU Performance In-depth

"Get a quad-core" i see so that's the point of this article? sorry but no, i rather buy better game- there is nothing wrong with my core duo, in fact my duo crushes both the "cell" and the garbage of powerpc inside the 360. this is a console game after all, even a calculator should be able to run it at 60fps.

One of XP SP2 PCs has a 2.93 Ghz Core 2 Duo E7500 CPU, 2 Gigs of DDR2 memory, a 3-year old 512MB GF 8800GT card and a Viewsonic VA912 LCD non-wide19-inch monitor which tops out at a resolution of 1280x1024. I wonder how well Black Ops will run on this rig. Every other PC seems to running at 1680x1050.

i had the same blue screen crash at first just updated my nvidia 9800gt drivers and the game ran fine

All of your test are done with directX 9 i am curiuos why? Every machine capable of running the game would most likely have directX 10 in most cases and possibly directX 11 as is my case.

Very interesting review

I'm running a i7 860 @ 3.4Ghz with an 5970 at 5870 speeds.
I'm having major issues with crossfire scaling With catalyst AI (crossfire) enabled for the 5970 i will have a framerate of 50-70fps (com_maxfps = 125) with catalyst AI disabled i will hit 80-125 fps.

Ingame settings are all set to lowest and some fancy stuff in the config has been turned off, the resolution used is 1680x1050.

This shows to me that somehow crossfire performance scaling is negative. So what i would really like to know is why the issue does not arise in your testing. Which Catalyst drivers are you using? I have tried 10.5 through 10.11 with no notable difference.

You should test it in DX11 and let us know how you go

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This review is not reflective of what I'm experiencing in game. And from what I'm reading on various Black Ops forums, there is a large percent of players in my boat. One week after release, game is still not playable.

I'm averaging around 20fps in MP at 1680x1050 (no noticable change at 1280x1024)

my comp:
Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.00 Ghz
4.00 GB RAM
480 GTX w/ 1.5GB RAM

This review was a surprise to see with how buggy this game is. It will need an update after the game has been patched for sure.

This review also does not reflect MP performance in anyway...

If they update and change the single player performance we will update for sure.

This is the second well-threaded game in a row where the numbers for the i3-540 seem low. The last game MOH also showed the same thing with the i3-540 no faster than the G6950 clock for clock. You have me convinced something is wrong with your i3-540 setup. Someone needs to bring up the Windows Task Manager (CTR+ALT+DEL) and click the performance Tab to check to make sure all 4 logical processors are functioning. My bet is hyperthreading is turned off and your I3-540 will only show 2 of the 4 logical cores active.

In my last comments I stated that the i3/i5 dual cores can see a 50% boost in frame rates with HT, as HT does generally very well in well threaded games. The quad cores with HT (i7) don't seem show as large an increase because the 4 physical cores appear to take care of most of the load.

A few examples of this i3 HT performance.

RE5

i3-530 … 153.7 … … 65% faster
G6950 … 93.0

Colin McRae : Dirt 2

I3-530 … 84.69 … 50.3% faster
G6950 … 56.35

Source … http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozessoren/2010/test-intel-pentium-g6950-und-core-i3-530/23/#abschnitt_resident_evil_5

DAO (Dragon Age Origins)

i3-530 … 95.0… 56% faster
G6950 … 60.9

Source … http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/60

BF - BC2 multiplayer

See … http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?p=11398817#post11398817

About half way down the page of the link is a graph of the i3-530 with HT off and on. The frame rate increase (an eyeball estimate) goes from an average of just under 40 to close to 60 -- about a 50% increase. Even more significant is that the minimum frame rate goes from dips into the low 20's (several times) to just one dip below 40 (mid-high 30's) -- a even greater boost than 50%.

Your i3-540 just doesn't seem to be performing where I would expect to see it in multi-threaded games.

9:31, have you already used the performance update? my rig: amd x2 3800+, 2gB ddr2, 8600gt, didnt play it on lowest settings before the update, after the update i've got decent fps on medium settings and 1024*768 resolution

Yeah, I have an E8500 C2D 3.16GHz with 3GB and a 5870. Game looks good, both cores max out, it stutters, and it's unplayable. I got amazon to agree to refund me. I hope everybody does the same so we can just highlight that we shouldn't have to pay for incomplete, poorly tested product.
Sorry guys, it's a great looking game and I think you've done a good job, but major problems on all platforms? Really? The fact that you released it anyway just means you know we're your bitches and once we've paid for it there's FA we can do. That relationship with your patrons is wrong, and it needs to change.

So is COD BO running better after the patch? been holding out till i find out if its going to be worth getting.

The other possibility for a slow running i3-540 could be thermal throttling. If the heatsink isn't making good contact with the CPU, it will still run but throttle to keep temps in check -- lowering performance. You might check the temperature of the i3-540 during a benchmark run.

I am looking into the single player performance now.

Look, the review is very clear.. You need at least a Core i5 750 to get maximum performance from your GPU. Now STOP WHINING about lagging and shuttering as the problem is YOUR RIG and NOT the game.. Why would anyone pair up a garbage phenom x2/x3 with a high end gpu (eg. 5970)?! Heck why would anyone use AMD processor for gaming in the first place? Look, even for intel core 2 duo user (ie. e8600 etc), your CPU is near garbage. Bottom line, your CPU is not sufficient to run the game. So do yourself a favor, stop upgrading your GPU and get a INTEL core i5/i7.

Quite simple, minimi requirements where much lower so off course are alot of dual core players feelign riped off. ****ing ignorant bastard!!!

Big words from a guest lol you know what it doesnt take an i5 or i7 to run this game also an amd cpu is just fine even paired with a 5970 i for one think you are an ***** and more than likely you are running an old piece of crap P4 system or something and are acting like a child grow up and have a nice day. PS if you want to keep saying this stuff try telling some of the TS members here that have AMD 6 core systems and 3 way crossfire that they are morons get over it and have a great day.

klepto, 6 cores?! You do know what crap you're saying here right? It doesnt takes 6 bloody cores to run the game. Heck which game actually utilize 6 cores?! Don't be one of those morons out there and think that more core = better, at least not for gaming. Now, you can dump your AMD cpu, period.


Btw i'm running a i5 750 =) have a nice day