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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review - PCSTATS
AMD's 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor represents a slight clock speed increase over the previous forerunner, the quad-core 955 Black Edition, and competes with Intel's existing quad-core family of socket 775 CPUs.
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External Mfg. Website: AMD Aug 19 2009   J. Apong  
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32-Bit CPU Calculation Benchmarks: ScienceMark2, WinRAR

ScienceMark 2.0 Source: ScienceMark

Mol Dyn: Molecular Dynamics is a method for simulating the thermodynamic behaviour of materials using their forces, velocities, and positions. Most important of the afore mentioned is the force. Primordia: This code calculates the Quantum Mechanical Hartree-Fock Orbital for each electron in any element of the periodic table Lower times indicate better results.

Lower calculation times are better.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportScienceMark 2.3
Primordia: 2-core (sec) Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 214.30866
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 182.98519
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 193.09425
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 169.76479
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 180.79589
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 206.44843
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 205.89
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 187.42693
AMD Athlon II X2 250 194.40944
Mol Dyn: 2-core (sec) Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 40.44002
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 43.53948
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 46.56567
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 46.13833
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 49.00769
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 56.19517
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 55.893
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 50.63983
AMD Athlon II X2 250 52.47853

ScienceMark illustrates just how much optimization can affect a processor's performance. The Primordia benchmark places the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition in the lead by a significant margin, and it doesn't seem to favour the Core i7 920 at all. The Mol Dun benchmark is a win for the Core i7, with the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition dropping to third place overall, just ahead of the Core 2 Duo E 8400.

WinRAR Internal Benchmark Source: RARLabs

This command generates random data, which contain specially introduced redundancy increasing load to processor and memory. Then data are passed through RAR compression and decompression algorithms and output of decompression algorithm is compared with source data. If any difference found, WinRAR reports "Errors found - Yes" in the command window. Also WinRAR displays a size of processed data and compression speed, current and resulting, in kilobytes per second. You may use the resulting speed value to compare RAR performance in different conditions.

Higher results are better.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportWinRAR 3.8 Internal Benchmark
KB/s Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 3012
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 923
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 1058
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 1975
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 1866
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 1534
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 1435
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 970
AMD Athlon II X2 250 887

Again, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition is doing very well here, it's the fastest AMD processor PCSTATS has yet tested. While it's still behind the Core i7 920 in terms of overall performance in this benchmark, it's a more affordable chip and less expensive platform. The two dual-core Core 2 Duo processors suffer badly against WinRARs internal test...

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Contents of Article: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
 Pg 1.  AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review
 Pg 2.  AMD Overdrive 3.0 and Dragon Platform
 Pg 3.  Core-by-Core System Power Draw
 Pg 4.  Black Edition Overclocking - Breaking 4.4GHz?
 Pg 5.  Test Specs + 32-bit CPU System Benchmarks: SYSMark 2007
 Pg 6.  32-bit CPU System Benchmarks: PCMark Vantage
 Pg 7.  32-Bit CPU Synthetic Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra CPU / Memory
 Pg 8.  32-Bit CPU Calculation Benchmarks: Super Pi, wPrime2.0
 Pg 9.  — 32-Bit CPU Calculation Benchmarks: ScienceMark2, WinRAR
 Pg 10.  32-Bit CPU Rendering Benchmarks: Cinebench R10, Bibble 5
 Pg 11.  32-Bit CPU Rendering Benchmarks: POV-Ray, 3.7, SPECviewPerf 10
 Pg 12.  32-Bit CPU Synthetic Gaming Benchmarks: 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark 06
 Pg 13.  32-Bit CPU Gaming Benchmarks: Crysis, FEAR
 Pg 14.  Core i5 or Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition?

 
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