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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor Review
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor Review - PCSTATS
In most other respects the quad core 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 125W revision remains the same. The architecture is "Deneb", the socket is AM3 and the CPU still features 6MB of shared L3 and 512KB of L2 cache for each of the four cores.
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External Mfg. Website: AMD Nov 04 2009   J. Apong  
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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 - Windows Vista
Primordia: 2-core (sec) Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 214.30866
Intel Core i5 750 221.92685
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 182.98519
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 193.09425
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (140W) 169.76479
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (125W) 170.01108
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 X4 620 222.29283
AMD Athlon II X3 435 199.80333
AMD Athlon II X2 250 194.40944
AMD Athlon II X2 240e 209.24013
Mol Dyn: 2-core (sec) Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 40.44002
Intel Core i5 750 38.39841
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 43.53948
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 46.56567
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (140W) 46.13833
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (125W) 46.36801
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 X4 620 60.23274
AMD Athlon II X3 435 54.21617
AMD Athlon II X2 250 52.47853
AMD Athlon II X2 240e 56.52134

ScienceMark illustrates just how much optimization can affect a processor's performance. The Primordia benchmark places the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (125W) 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 (125W) dropping to third place overall, just ahead of the Core 2 Duo E 8400.


PCSTATS Benchmark ReportScienceMark 2.3 - Windows 7
Primordia: 2-core (sec) Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 212.04955
Intel Core i5 750 221.80636
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 192.65652
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (140W) 170.46994
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (125W) 169.62199
AMD Athlon II X4 620 224.25671
AMD Athlon II X3 435 201.54981
AMD Athlon II X2 240e 210.00517
Mol Dyn: 2-core (sec) Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 38.47092
Intel Core i5 750 38.40741
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 45.93169
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (140W) 43.20008
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (125W) 43.20549
AMD Athlon II X4 620 56.74246
AMD Athlon II X3 435 51.06571
AMD Athlon II X2 240e 53.07563

Scores in Windows Vista and Windows 7 are identical for ScienceMark.

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 - Windows Vista
KB/s Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 3012
Intel Core i5 750 2433
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 923
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 1058
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (140W) 1975
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (125W) 1657
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 X4 620 1348
AMD Athlon II X3 435 1230
AMD Athlon II X2 250 887
AMD Athlon II X2 240e 996

WinRAR again shows that the current state of the hard drive is a huge variable in this test, explaining the difference between the original and 125W versions of the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportWinRAR 3.8 Internal Benchmark - Windows 7
KB/s Ranking
Intel Core i7 920 2513
Intel Core i5 750 2267
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 1251
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (140W) 1637
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (125W) 2153
AMD Athlon II X4 620 1449
AMD Athlon II X3 435 1237
AMD Athlon II X2 240e 946

The score of the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (125W) goes up dramatically in WinRAR under Windows 7, these differences are due mainly to fluctuations in hard drive access performance rather than any disadvantage of the operating system.

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Contents of Article: AMD henom II X4 965 Black Edition C3
 Pg 1.  AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor Review
 Pg 2.  Core-by-Core System Power Draw
 Pg 3.  125W Black Edition Overclocking - Breaking 4.0GHz?
 Pg 4.  CPU System Benchmarks: Sysmark 2007
 Pg 5.  CPU System Benchmarks: PCMark Vantage
 Pg 6.  CPU Synthetic Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra Processor
 Pg 7.  CPU Synthetic Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra Memory
 Pg 8.  CPU Calculation Benchmarks: Super Pi
 Pg 9.  CPU Calculation Benchmarks: wPrime2.0
 Pg 10.  — CPU Calculation Benchmarks: ScienceMark2, WinRAR
 Pg 11.  CPU Rendering Benchmarks: Cinebench R10, Bibble 5
 Pg 12.  CPU Rendering Benchmarks: POV-Ray 3.7
 Pg 13.  CPU Rendering Benchmarks: SPECviewPerf 10
 Pg 14.  CPU Synthetic Gaming Benchmarks: 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark 06
 Pg 15.  CPU Gaming Benchmarks: Crysis
 Pg 16.  CPU Gaming Benchmarks: FEAR
 Pg 17.  Same Performance, More Energy Efficient

 
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