AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review
Phenom X4 Vs Core 2 Quad
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Let us take a closer look at the test setups and benchmarks used.
Test Setup and Benchmark Software
We have two platforms at our disposal :
Intel Platform
EVGA 780i
QX9650 3.0 GHZ
G-Skill 2 X 2 GB DDR2 RAM 800 MHZ 4-4-4-12
Saphire Radeon 4850 HD
Vista Ultimate 64 bit
AMD Platform
EVGA nvidia nforce 730a
Phenom II X4 940
Geil Esoteria 2 X 2 GB DDR2 RAM 800 MHZ 4-4-4-12
Saphire Radeon 4850 HD
Vista Ultimate 64 bit
Benchmarking Software
Everest Ultimate Edition Version 5.01.1700
Winrar X64 3.90 Beta 2
Cinebench R10 64 bit
Adobe Photoshop CS3
TechArp X264 Benchmark Version 2.0
4Media FLV to DivX Converter 5.1.24
Any Video Converter Version 2.7.3
FutureMark 3DMark 06
FutureMark 3DMark Vantage
World in Conflict SP Demo
PT Boats: Knights of the sea DX10 Demo
Call of Juarez DX 10 Demo
Crysis SP Demo
Tom Clancy's HAWX SP Demo
Far Cry 2
The Last Remnant Tech Demo
We used a variety of benchmarks to test the CPU perfomance in Synthetic Applicatins, Image Rendering, Video encoding and gaming.
Performance Results
We will start off with some synthetic applications. First up is Everest. The following graph shows the scores in all the CPU related benchmarks.
There are significant differences in perofrmance in individual tests but on average they are neck to neck.
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