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Review: AMD Phenom X3 8750: tri-core Phenom to challenge Intel's Core 2 Duo?

by Parm Mann on 23 April 2008, 04:15

Tags: Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition, Phenom X3, Phenom X4 9750, Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), Gigabyte (TPE:2376), ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), AMD (NYSE:AMD), OCZ (NASDAQ:OCZ), Corsair, FSP Group (TPE:3015), PC

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System setup and notes


System AMD AM2+ system Intel LGA775 system
Processors

AMD Phenom X4 9750 (2.4GHz, 2MiB L2 cache, 2MiB L3 cache, AM2+, quad-core)
AMD Phenom X4 9550 (2.4GHz, 2MiB L2 cache, 2MiB L3 cache, AM2+, quad-core)
AMD Phenom X3 8750 (2.4GHz, 1.5MiB L2 cache, 2MiB L3 cache, AM2+, tri-core)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (3.2GHz, 2MiB L2 cache, AM2, dual-core)

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.40GHz, 8MiB L2 cache, LGA775, quad-core)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 (2.66GHz, 6MiB L2 cache, LGA775, dual-core)
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 (AMD 790X + SB600) ASUS P5K Premium (Intel P35 + ICH9R)
Memory

4GiB (4 x 1GiB) Corsair PC8500 Dominator EPP

4GiB (4 x 1GiB) Corsair PC8500 Dominator EPP

Memory timings and speed

4-4-4-12 @ DDR2 800MHz

4-4-4-12 @ DDR2 800MHz

Graphics card(s) ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MiB
Disk drive(s) Seagate 160GiB SATAII (ST3160812AS)
Optical drive(s) Sony DW-Q30A
BIOS revision F4 (03/04/2008) 0504 (12/10/2007
Mainboard software Vista pre-installed drivers + AMD AHCI Driver 2.5.1540.47 Intel Inf 8.4.0.1016
Graphics driver Catalyst 7.11 BETA (8.43.1-071028a-055060E-ATI)
Operating system Windows Vista Business 64-bit
PSU FSP Epsilon 600W OCZ GameXStream 700W
Monitor Dell 2405FPW


Software

Benchmarks

ScienceMark Memory Latency
Sandra XII Lite SP2 Win64 Memory Bandwidth Float Buffered
PiFast calculation to 10M places
HEXUS WAV encoding
HEXUS DivX 6.6.1 + LAME encoding Enhanced Multithreading ON + SSE4 search OFF
CINEBENCH R10 64-bit
POV-Ray 64-bit 3.7.0 BETA 21a
DivX 6.6.1 + LAME encoding Enhanced Multithreading ON + SSE4 Search OFF + QT7.2
DivX 6.6.1 + LAME encoding Enhanced Multithreading ON + SSE4 Search OFF + Quake 4 1.3 1024 SMP ON
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts v2.103 DX9 1024
Quake 4 v1.3 1024 SMP ON
Quake Wars: ET v1.1 1024 SMP OFF



Notes

For our comparison, we're pitting the Phenom X3 8750 against Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 and Core 2 Duo E8200. Both Intel chips are available at roughly the same price as AMD's X3 Phenom 8750 and make for obvious competition.

In addition, we'll be comparing benchmark figures from AMD's own X4 9850, X4 9550 and X2 6400+.


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