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.

ScienceMark 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.

ScienceMark 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.

WinRAR 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.

WinRAR 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.