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AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Quad-Core Processor
CineBench R10
MAXON CINEBENCH runs several tests on computers to measure the performance of the processor and graphics card under real-world circumstances and makes use of up to 16 cpus or cpu cores. Cinebench's test process is in two-phases: The first test procedure is directed against the cpu using a 3D render scene and photo realistic image settings shown above to test how fast the cpu can produce the fully rendered scene. During the 1st pass of the test, the benchmark will only use one cpu, or in a multi-cpu core system it will use only a single cpu core to render the photo realistic scene to get a base value against which it will then perform the 2nd phase of the test using all of the cpu cores available. Higher Frames/Second and lower rendering time in seconds equals better performance.
Looking at the performance, you can see that for the single core phase of the test we achieved 2109 CB-CPU points. As for the second phase, which utilizes all four cores of the processor, we achieved 8369 CB-CPU points. The multiprocessor speedup reported during these tests was 3.96x when comparing the single core rendering with the multi core. This isn't quite 4x speed up, but 3.93x is very acceptable. For the third phase of the test, it uses OpenGL to render a short clip, for this part it received 3179 CB-GFX.
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AMD Phenom X4 9950 @ 2.6GHz Single Core: 2109 CB-CPU |
With the Phenom X4 9950 overclocked to 3.0 GHz, we were able to achieved a single core rating of 2476 CB-CPU and multi core rating of 9393 CB-CPU. This is an improvement of over 1000 CB-CPU points, which is quite a remarkable improvement. The OpenGL test improved as well, from 3179 points to 3419 points.
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AMD Phenom X4 9950 OC @ 3.0GHz
Single Core: 2391 CB-CPU |
WinRar:
Winrar's internal benchmark utility shows what the real time speed in KB/s that would be when using both single-thread and multi-threaded tasks. Taking a look at how the stock AMD Phenom 9950 performed, we see that without multithreading we get a resulting speed of 639 KB/s, but with multithreading enabled our speeds increase to 1,425 KB/s.
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AMD Phenom X4 9950 @ 2.6GHz |
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Now taking a glance on how the overclocked AMD Phenom 9950 performed, we notice that there was a significant increase in the single threading result, increasing from 639 KB/s to 768 KB/s. Whereas the multithreading results only increased from 1,425 KB/s to 1,477 KB/s.
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AMD Phenom X4 9950 OC @ 3.0GHz |
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ScienceMark v2.0
Science Mark uses multiple benchmarking processes to get an overall idea of how the processor will perform in the real-world.
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AMD Phenom X4 9950 @ 2.6GHz |
AMD Phenom X4 9950 OC @ 3.0GHz |
As you can see from the results listed above, running the AMD Phenom 9950 at stock speeds it received 1594.31 marks. But when we bump the processor up to 3.0GHz, we received a significant improvement to 1851.88, an increase of over 250 marks.