Multithreaded performance
As with our Phenom X4 9850 BE review, it's all looking a bit too familiar. Intel's non-native architecture once again leaves Phenom in its wake when handling dual-threaded WAV encoding. The Phenom X3 8750's direct competitor, Intel's Core 2 Duo E8200, trumps the competition.
As with the quad-core Phenom X4 processors, the Phenom X3 8750 hasn't fared well on single-threaded or dual-threaded tests. Our DivX encoding benchmark, the first test to utilise all cores on each processor, tells a similar tale. The Phenom X3 8750 is no match for Intel's supreme quad-core Q6600, and falls slightly behind Intel's dual-core E8200 in terms of performance.
Another benchmark heavy on all four cores is CINEBENCH R10 64-bit, and this time around, AMD's Phenom X3 8750 is able to come out ahead of one immediate rival, the Core 2 Duo E8200. Quad-core chips, led by Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600, lead the way as expected on this core-taxing test.
The third multi-core benchmark, POV-Ray, also puts the tri-core Phenom X3 in a favourable light. Granted, it's no significant leap, but it does edge ahead of Intel's Core 2 Duo E8200.
Despite its third core, the Phenom X3 8750 is, for the most part, on par with Intel's Core 2 Duo E8200 and doesn't offer the multithreaded performance we had hoped.
