This next test processes a map from Half-Life 2 using Valve’s VRAD lighting tool. AMD Phenom II X4 925 95W 2.8 GHz Quad-Core CPU Processor HDX925WFK4DGI Socket $22.99 AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor 125W HDZ955FBK4DGM Socket AM3 Under load, the Phenom systems draw about as much power as those based on Intel’s 65nm quad-core processors in the 3GHz range. Things really arent looking good!! Neither can i, but it made me laugh regardless. "[6][7], AMD launched several models of the Phenom processor in 2007 and 2008 and an upgraded Phenom II in late 2008. The Phenom’s core voltage is still determined by the power state of the core with highest utilization, but AMD has separated the power plane for the chip’s CPU core from the power plane for its memory controller. “Sitting in his high-chair and slurping down some warm milk from from a plastic bottle, my two-year-old grandson, between resplendent belches and burps, asked me a probing question just yesterday.

The manamana just made my evening. That benchmark reference was also clock for clock and it is clear clock for clock they are behind. This test is obviously a showcase for the tailored instructions of SSE4, which the Phenom lacks. It’s possible the difference here is made by the Core 2 processors’ larger L2 caches—up to 12MB, in the case of the 45nm quad-core processors. “In fact, our 2.6GHz engineering sample wasn’t 100% stable, which is why you won’t find any overclocking results in this review.”. Thanks you very much and waiting for more info! We tested at 1024×768 resolution with the game’s fidelity presets set to “High.”. The Panorama Factory photo stitching Intel C2Q Q6600 – 2466 – 8691 We had to test with AHCI disabled, which means SATA Native Command Queuing isn’t enabled. Even with the addition of a 2MB L3 cache, the Phenom’s effective cache size is smaller than the Core 2 Duo E6750’s 4MB L2. Ironically, I think Core 2 Duo outperformed Athlon 64 X2 more than Athlon 64 outperformed Pentium 4. So, how do the CPU’s compare on how much time the EAC or the compile jobs take and how does it affect fps of the shooter game? Here’s another application where only two threads are used, and the Phenoms again struggle, even against the Athlon 64 X2. In addition to average frame rates, we’ve included the low frame rates, because those tend to reflect the user experience in performance-critical situations.

I think another thing they did wrong was talk about their wattage savings like it was something revolutionary. AMD has been working for a long time on the K10 and this is the only thing they can come up for now?!? working hard or hardly working?

Intel watches them and thinks, “Hey, cool. Our Extech 380803 power meter has the ability to log data, so we can capture power use over a span of time. Which holiday? But, if the core2 duo’s show better CPU utilization on the benchmarks say 95% vs 80% for the Phenom, then the benchmarks would be skewed.

I don’t fps game (except perhaps MS FS2004 or MS CFS2) but with 4 cores you should be able to at least bench it. This method causes less performance loss than previous workarounds.

Next up are a couple of tests we picked up during a visit to Valve Software, the developers of the Half-Life games.

In fact, until Athlon 64, AMD’s CPU performance wasn’t even all that phenomenal in comparison to its various contemporaries.

TLB Stands for Translation Lookaside Buffer. Intel managed to close the gap somewhat with its memory disambiguation logic in the Core microarchitecture, and AMD has widened that gap with Phenom. Still the budget area should be okay (like with the Am5x86).

We’ll have a look at why that clock is an important one in our benchmark results shortly.

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On a system with two CPU cores, for instance, the CD spins off a Tinker WU on core 1 and an Amber WU on core 2.

The Phenom is clearly faster clock for clock than older Athlon 64 X2s with the two Gromacs WU types. We tested with most of the DivX codec’s defaults, including its Home Theater base profile, but we enabled enhanced multithreading and, of course, the experimental full search option. You post is an oversized waste of space.

The differences are relatively small, but the Phenom 9600 does trail the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in each test. Of course, multithreading works even better on multi-core processors. Phenom 9600 – 1948- 7385, TechReport’s review on Windows Vista Ultimate 64bits and Cinebech 64bits AthlonXP was years and years ahead of P4 in IPC. It seems the K10 is becoming the next K5. At present, the only Socket AM2+ chipset on the market is AMD’s 790FX, which we’ve reviewed today, as well. But WHEN? AMD has convinced Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI to produce 790FX-based boards, but it doesn’t appear to have convinced them to dedicate top-shelf engineering resources to these efforts. each thread computes the next column not being worked on by other threads. that sure hell justifies their disappointment…, Excerpt from §[
[3] This penalty was not accounted for in pre-release previews of Phenom, hence the performance of early Phenoms delivered to customers may have been less than the preview benchmarks. We’ll kick off our gaming tests with some Team Fortress 2, Valve’s class-driven multiplayer shooter based on the Source game engine.

That’s a snapshot of the CPU utilization indicator in Windows Task Manager, which helps illustrate how much the application takes advantage of up to four CPU cores, when they’re available. Since the different systems completed the render at different speeds, we’ve isolated the render period for each system. Our chip is clocked at 2.6GHz, like the proposed Phenom 9900 model expected next year. These cpus are only good for AM2 users for a convenient upgrade path to quad cores. [2], Before Phenom's original release a flaw was discovered in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) that could cause a system lock-up in rare circumstances; Phenom processors up to and including stepping "B2" and "BA" are affected by this bug. Other sites forgot about the former, and while comparing to Q6600, commented like comparing with paper QX9770, which, according to quite a few sites, is not as stable (power, stability) silicon as Intel would like us to believe. And will it have been worth the, erm, considerable wait?

If you’re reading this article, chances are you already know at thing or two about Phenom processors. Only motherboards conforming to the new Socket AM2+ standard will be able to reap the benefits of Phenom’s split power planes, but Phenom ought to be compatible with—and able to act as a drop-in upgrade for—existing Socket AM2 motherboards.

Next, we have a slick little Folding@Home benchmark CD created by notfred, one of the members of Team TR, our excellent Folding team. After all, they’ve been in development for years, and AMD has been talking about them publicly for quite some time. COME ON AMD! It seems strange to compare scores when percentage of core utilization isn’t 100%. (1A) Start VLC and play DVD music video in a window Intel needs price competition to settle their greedy asses down.

A dual monitor card will let you game on the primary monitor one while you view other processes on the secondary monitor.

I’d encourage you to visit our distributed computing forum and consider joining our team if you haven’t already joined one. This test runs with just a single thread and then with as many threads as CPU cores are available. I dont’ think I will be affected by it as I only game, basic uses. I also run a dual monitor setup while gaming, it does not affect performance enough to really be noticeable from my experience, and i run most of my games at 1920×1200. As a result, AMD is introducing a pair of Phenom models today, with promises of more later.

One bright spot here is the upgrade proposition the Phenom offers to current owners of Socket AM2-based systems. We believe five sample sessions are sufficient to get reasonably consistent results. The benchmark scene is largely a single-threaded affair, which helps explains the Phenom’s relatively slow performance. Whip out his magnifying glass and look for all the traces of the 512bit bus on the PCB and drool over that? Sitting in his high-chair and slurping down some warm milk from from a plastic bottle, my two-year-old grandson, between resplendent belches and burps, asked me a probing question just yesterday. cheers, Anandtech’s review is on Windows Vista 32bits so Cinebech R10 on 32bits: Or is this ‘black edition’ supposed to be released after they’ve fixed it? I wouldn’t put any money on 2008. The Quad FX system was powered by a PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW-SR power supply.

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AMD’s processors with integrated memory controllers have traditionally had the lowest memory access latencies around, but that’s no longer the case with Phenom.