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Published: Jul 17, 2009 Author: Ville Ilonen Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: AMD Share this article:

Testing

Testing:

Test setup:
AMD Phenom II X3 705e
AMD Phenom X4 9500 (TLB fix enabled)
Asus M3A motherboard
2x2GB A-DATA DDR2
250GB Seagate 7200.9 HDD
ECS Geforce 9800GT 512MB
BenQ G2410HD display

SuperPi does not support multi-threading so Phenom II X3 705e makes around seven seconds faster time than last generations Phenom X4 9500. The reason is simple, 705e runs at 2.5GHz while 9500 runs only at 2.2GHz. Also some architectural changes in Phenom vs Phenom II will make a bit difference in this test.

In 8M test we see similar results as in 1M test. X3 is a way faster in singlethreaded applications. In 8M test X4 gets beaten by X3 with over an minute. This is something that surprised me quite a bit since X4 is only 300MHz slower than the X3 were testing.