Performance Results: Applications
There are obvious performance benefits for the faster configurations in Cinema 3D. Each clock speed increment delivers a nice performance bump, but the increase is not linear.
The same applies to Photoshop; the Phenom II X4 clearly benefits from faster clock speeds.
WinRAR is multi-threaded, while WinZIP was not optimized to take advantage of multiple processing cores. There are only small clock speed benefits in WinRAR, but they’re there.
WinZIP shows better relative performance benefits with increasing clock speed.
Deep Fritz is a multi-threaded chess application that is grateful for any additional processing core and clock speed made available to it.
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hmm not quite what I had expected from the article but still it gives a good insight of what the phenom II can do.
What I expected or rather would have like to see is the way that delivers the most performance, the multiplier oc or high memory bus speed oc etc. Or if a combination of those will deliver the highest oc ratings.
for the rest its a good article which can be used for those who value good performance at an acceptible power usage.
I think that would be a very good follow up article, maybe using the 3.6Ghz speed in different ways ie, overclocking the bus compared to multiplier
Wouldn't go that far. For servers and clusters the advantage was and still is, almost always in AMD's favour what with simplified and more efficient memory controllers, together with lower latencies.
Plus, in some tests the speed difference between the A64 and Core 2 architecture is not that great (with a few tests really showing what the A64 can do). Plus, when Core 2 came out and people were looking for stable, fast chipsets with onboard features..where were they? AMD was streets ahead. AMD is now competing on price, and can more than make up for what is looses in core performance, by offering products are very good prices. In terms of overclocking I got a 2.1GHz AMD part that will do 2.8GHz on a stock cooler and a little bit more voltage..not bad for an 'inferior' product
I think that would be a very good follow up article, maybe using the 3.6Ghz speed in different ways ie, overclocking the bus compared to multiplier
I'd like to see that test incorporate some heavy-multi-tasking as well..really load down all the four cores, as well as the bus as much as possible. Then compare it to the non-native Quad from Intel. Maybe some supplemental information on the way AMD processors work, for people who aren't familiar with them, ie
- base frequency/bus speed
- HT links: CPUCPU, and CPUNB, NBSB
- HT width
- Memory speeds
..how these things relate to each other and whether it's worth clocking some or all of them to see a measurable return in your overclock. Even for experience Intel users this must appear as double-Dutch if they've never used it before.
I like these overclocking results, they look fairly linear, upto a point. Thanks for doing the groundwork so the rest of us can build cheap GTAIV rigs
it is good to see AMD being back into the game. there 45nm parts and new strategy seem to make alot of diffrence. according to fudzilla amd had some changes at the top http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] &Itemid=66 John Byrne who is known for the succes of the radeon 4k series is now vice president of both GPU and CPU bussiness this might be a good step towards profitability. and you can actualy call the phenom 920 and 940 amds radeon 4850 and 4870 for the cpu market if you like. i have no doubt we can compare the future models such as the 955 part with 3.2ghz of clockspeed to the radeon 4890 in marketing strategy. fudzilla also claimed amd might boost its market share to 30% in Q2 of this year. this is good news indeed and lets hope they finaly break even. I my self might build an amd system soon phenom 920 seems a good choice for its price since i cannot afford a core i7 setup togheter with a radeon 4890 this should be near perfect
i know 4890 might seem a bit more expansive then 4870 but at the place i plan to buy it it isnt even 30 euro diffence with 4870 512mb version. 4890 is known to be considerably faster then 4870 512mb. here are some benchmarks btw http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] mitstart=1