Prelude to Benchmarks

Over the following pages we'll be running AMD's 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor though PCSTATS standard set of gaming, productivity, and multi-threaded processor benchmarks. There are a wide variety of gaming and synthetic benchmarks here to illustrate what kind of performance boost users can expect from the latest quad-core socket AM3 AMD processor. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results next.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations

test system reference system #1 reference system #2 reference system #3 processor: amd phenom ii x4 965 black edition amd Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition AMD Athlon II X2 250 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition Intel Core i7 920 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU Process Technology: 45nm 45nm 45nm 45nm Socket: Socket AM3/AM2+ Socket AM3/AM2+ Socket LGA1366 Socket LGA775 Clock Speed: 17x 200 MHz = 3.4 GHz (965 BE) 16x 200 MHz = 3.2 GHz(955 BE) 15.5x 200 MHz = 3.1 GHz (550BE) 15x 200 MHz = 3.0 GHz (X2 250) 14 x 200 MHz = 2.8 GHz 20 x 133 MHz = 2.67 GHz 9.5 x 333 MHz = 3.16GHz (E8500) 9 x 333 MHz = 3.0 GHz< BR > (E8500) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (AMD 790FX) ASUS M4A78T-E (AMD 790GX)* ASUS M3A78-T (AMD 790GX) MSI X58 Platinum (X58 Express) MSI X48 Platinum (X48 Express) Videocard: ASUS ENGTS250 DK (Geforce GTS250) MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E (Geforce 8800GTS) ASUS ENGTS250 DK (Geforce GTS 250) MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E (Geforce 8800GTS) Memory: 2x2GB Corsair XMS3-1600C9 DDR3 2x1GB Patriot PDC32G1600LLK DDR3* 2x1GB Corsair Twin2X-8888C4D DDR2 3x2GB Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D DDR3 2x1GB Patriot PDC32G1600LLK DDR3 Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 Optical Drive: ASUS BC-1205PT-BD Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 750W Heatsink: Athlon64 K8 Reference Heatsink Intel Reference 1366 Heatsink Intel Reference 775 Heatsink Software Setup: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate AMD Catalyst 9.4 nVIDIA Forceware 182.08 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate AMD Catalyst 9.1 nVIDIA Forceware 169.25 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Intel INF 9.1.0.1012 nVIDIA Forceware 182.08 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Intel INF 9.0.0.1008 nVIDIA Forceware 169.25 Benchmarks: System Benchmarks: SYSmark 2007 PCMark Vantage SiSoft Sandra 2009 Calculation B/M: Super Pi 1.5 wPrime 2.0 ScienceMark 2.3 WinRAR 3.8 Bibble 5 Rendering B/M: Cinebench R10 POV-Ray 3.7 SPECviewPerf 10 Gaming B/M: 3DMark06 3DMark Vantage Cyrsis FEAR

BAPco SYSmark 2007 1.05	Source: Bapco

SYSmark 2007 is an application-based benchmark that reflects usage patterns of business users in the areas of Video creation, E-learning, 3D Modeling and Office Productivity. This new release includes a robust and refreshed set of applications. The new release also incorporates numerous new features and enhancements such as an improved GUI allowing streamlined start-up and run along with a heads-up-display (HUD) and automated error reporting. Higher results are better.