SiSoft Sandra
SiSoftware’s Sandra benchmarking suite has been a staple in the industry for years, providing a detailed look at the performance of each part of a system.
On this test, the X4 640 held even with the competition, delivering very solid numbers.
Here the X4 640 had an odd high-low split, pulling significantly ahead on the AES-128 encryption test, but falling behind on the SHA-256 hashing test.
Here the X4 640 continues AMD’s trend of lagging behind on inter-core communication, posting significantly worse numbers than Intel’s offerings on inter-core bandwidth and latency.
There wasn’t much of a spread here, with the X4 640 only lagging slightly behind Intel’s offerings on the floating-point multimedia test.
Because of the noted problem with C1E support, the power efficiency results should be disregarded, as the X4 640 was operating without benefit of CPU frequency scaling.
Anyone have the foggiest idea what this says?