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AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Quad-Core Processor
SiSoft Sandra:
"SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc."
The latest edition of SiSoft Sandra follows the tradition of testing the pure synthetic power of processors. We ran our test comparisons as shown against equivalent processors made by both AMD and Intel. First lets take a look at the results when running the AMD Phenom 9950 at the stock 2.6GHz clock speed.
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Processor Arithmetic |
Processor Multi-Media |
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Cache and Memory |
Memory Bandwidth |
Next we tested the overclocked configuration of the AMD Phenom 9950, which we brought to 3.0GHz.
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Processor Arithmetic |
Processor Multi-Media |
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Cache and Memory |
Memory Bandwidth |
As you can see in the results shown above. The AMD Phenom 9950 is staying neck and neck with Intel Q6600 processor. As one performs better in some tests, and the other performs better in others.
Kribi Bench v1.1
"The essential task in the final phase of the development of a 3D rendering engine, much like for a racing car engine, is tuning for the best possible performances on actual machines. After each small change in the program code, very precise timings show us the amount of speedup achieved (if any). For this purpose, we time with a stopwatch the rendering of a sequence of images, the laps of our racecourse. "
Kribi Bench is a software renderer which renders a 3D Model and reports the average frames per second. For our testing, we decided to render two of the more extensive 3D Models, both of which were included in the program. The first model we decided to render was "spongeexplo.d", this model consisted of 19.2 million polygons, and resulted in 12.4691 frames per second. The second model we rendered was "ultra.d" consisting of 16.6 Billion polygons, which rendered at 3.79264 frames per second.
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spongeexplo.d: 12.4691 fps |
ultra.d: 3.79264 fps |
Overclocked these results increased to 14.6498 frames per second for the first model and 3.88211 frames per second for the second.
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spongeexplo.d: 14.6498 fps |
ultra.d: 3.88211 fps |