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AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review - PCSTATS
The 3.2GHz AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition is the companies' latest quad-core processor, and it's being released in tandem with a new memory tuning tool called Black Edition Memory Profiles, or B.E.M.P. for short.
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External Mfg. Website: AMD Apr 30 2009   J. Apong  
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Synthetic Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra

SiSoft Sandra 2009 - Processor Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance. Higher results are best.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportSiSoft Sandra 2009 v15.72 - Processor
Processor Arithmetic Dhrystone ALU: (GIPS) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 68.25
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 23.56
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 43.7
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 28.64
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 28.7
Processor Arithmetic Whetstone iSSE3: (Gflops) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 60.22
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 22.17
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 42.17
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 27.64
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 27.9
Processor Multi-Media Int x8 iSSE3: (Mpixels/s) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 119.35
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 54.17
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 125.63
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 81.85
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 81.92
Processor Multi-Media Float x4 iSSE2: (Mpixels/s) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 95.4
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 31.22
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 55
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 36.04
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 36.08
Processor Multi-Media Float x2 iSSE2: (Mpixels/s) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 49.63
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 15.76
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 29.99
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 19.68
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 19.68

SiSoft Sandra responds well to the Core i7 architecture, and is greatly influenced by that CPU's hyperthreading capabilites. This is an easy win for Intel, although this kind of performance scaling is very rarely seen in real world applications.

SiSoft Sandra 2009 - Memory Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance. Higher bandwidth and lower latencies are best.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportSiSoft Sandra 2009 v15.72 - Memory
Multicore Efficiency Bandwidth: (GB/s) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 30.51
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 9.11
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 4.75
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 3.67
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 3.72
Multicore Efficiency Latency: (ns) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 17
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 44
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 89
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 83
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 80
Memory Bandwidth Int iSSE2: (GB/s) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 18.86
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 7.26
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 12.18
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 11.38
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 11.45
Memory Bandwidth Float iSSE2: (GB/s) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 18.86
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 7.27
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 12.17
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 11.41
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 11.42
Memory Latency (Random): (ns) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 81
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 77
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 83
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 82
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 84
Memory Latency (Linear): (ns) Points Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 9
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 11
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 15
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 14
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 15

The Core i7's monstrous memory capabilities are clearly evident here, there's no way the Phenom II X4 processor can keep up with it. The Phenom II X4 955 is more directly comparable to the Core 2 Duo E8400 in terms of price, and in that respect the Phenom II X4 does better in many of the tests.

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Contents of Article: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
 Pg 1.  AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review
 Pg 2.  AMD Overdrive 3.0 and Dragon Platform
 Pg 3.  AMD Overdrive 3.0 - Black Edition Memory Profiles (BEMP)
 Pg 4.  Overclocking an Unlocked 45nm Phenom II X4
 Pg 5.  Power Consumption Tests, Test System Specs
 Pg 6.  System Benchmarks: SYSMark 2007, PCMark Vantage
 Pg 7.  — Synthetic Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra
 Pg 8.  Calculation Benchmarks: Super Pi, wPrime2.0, ScienceMark2, WinRAR
 Pg 9.  Rendering Benchmarks: Cinebench R10, Bibble 5
 Pg 10.  Rendering Benchmarks: POV-Ray, 3.7, SPECviewPerf 10
 Pg 11.  Gaming Benchmarks: 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark 06
 Pg 12.  Gaming Benchmarks: Crysis, FEAR
 Pg 13.  A Timely Refresh?

 
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