The Sandy Bridge processors performed well and the i5-2500K was only slightly slower than the 4690K.

Compared to the Core i3-4350, the Haswell Pentium and Celeron processors delivered extremely poor performance.

However, both were still faster than the Core 2 Quad Q9650, which is a little suprising.

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Hitman Absolution is another CPU-intensive game, though not to the same degree as Metro Redux.

This time we find that most of the processors are able to average between 63 and 68fps at 1080p.

Only the Core 2 range struggled with weak results.