Tuesday, December 23rd 2008
Phenom II X4 940 Tested at Stock Speeds
BreakTheLimt.net, a Malaysian hardware portal tested the Phenom II X4 940 at its stock speed of 3.00 GHz, and posted a sting of benchmark results of the said chip. It was tested on a platform consisting of a MSI DKA790GX Platinum motherboard, with 2 GB of DDR2 1066 MHz memory and a ASUS Radeon HD 4870 TOP graphics card. All components were set to run at stock speeds. The chip was put through Super Pi 1M and 32M, Cinebench R10, PiFast Multithreaded, WPrime 1.5, Aquamark and 3DMark06.
Source:
BreakTheLimit.net
135 Comments on Phenom II X4 940 Tested at Stock Speeds
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I havn't bought into the i-7 yet simply because I'm waiting for the PII to release. If the PII can compete then I'm making the switch to AMD. But if not, then well I'll get an i7.
OK, so let's add another: Aquamark3. Q6600 at 2.7 is faster than Phenom2 at 3.0
All that is left to test is wPrime. I havent run that test on my Q6600. Perhaps, when I get the time I will. But really, Q6600 at 2.7 is beating the Phenom2 on the other 4 tests AND it is doing that on POOR DDR1 that we know doesnt have the bandwidth of AMD memory interconnect. Do I really need to run another test?
I agree i can't seem them reclaiming the crown, but with what ive seen they have improved alot and will equal if not beat C2D and that's pretty good, but we will see at lunch time.
All im interested in is gaming performance, and also encoding , transcoding etc more then anything else.
I already know about the memory results for both so that's all good.
Thanks for doing all the tests tho:toast:
before it gets long gone in this thread
Here's some Pifast w/ my e6750 @ 3200. 1.34s using settings up top. Maybe some AMD comparison?
Saw that rodneychef did a Q6600 at 3.0... let me know if a 2.7 DDR1 test is important to you, and I'll do it tomorrow when I'm at that PC
Thanks, anyway!
They only benchmarked a few applications, Super PI, Cine Bench, Aqua Marks, 3D Marks. These are synthetically benchmarks which do not support the correct number of threads. To make these benchmarks meaningful they at least 10-20 benchmarks, with a full analysis of each test, analysis of results, etc.
People keep talking about Super PI, AMD have never done well in Super PI, so why would they now? Just because a Q6600 performs well in Super PI it doesn't mean its an overall better than the Phenom II 940. This is evident as the Phenom 9950 X4 was just as fast as the Q6600 yet Super PI favoured the Q6600 despite other benchmarks not favouring the Q6600.
We've already seen previews of the Phenom II 940 sometimes beating the i7 920s and trading blows with the i7 940 despite the Phenom using DDR2, it's only slightly slower than the i7 940, think of how the Phenom II would perform with DDR3. Most probably on par or better. So for anyone to suggest that the Q6600 is on par with the Phenom II 940 is just stupid, especially if they are basing it on Super PI.
Let's wait for the proper reviews from established websites before we judge the Phenoms any further.
Edit: I've been following these previews on TPU for a while now, search the forums, they've been posted a few times already.
Half a frame is still trading blows, but Crysis isn't a good benchmark I must admit.
x264 encoding is where true CPU performance is at. And AMD looks quite good at beating Intel Penryn Quads at that. Even a 9850 is close enough to them ,
here's Q9450 at 3.2 Ghz
the AMD processor you up there is 9850 Black edition