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Review: AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition: dual-core Phenom at the ready

by Tarinder Sandhu on 15 December 2008, 09:54 3.55

Tags: Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition, Athlon X2 6000+, Pentium Dual-Core E5200, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), AMD (NYSE:AMD), PC

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Memory tests, HEXUS.PiFast, compression

SiSoft Sandra XII Lite SP2c Win64 memory bandwidth float buffered
AMD Athlon X2 7750 BEAMD Athlon X2 6000+Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200
7.838.174.58


With no integrated memory-controller on the dual-core Intel E5200, the reported figures are slanted, rightly so, towards the Athlon X2 duo.

Sciencemark 2 memory latency
AMD Athlon X2 7750 BEAMD Athlon X2 6000+Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200
59.8746.5157.2


We'd have thought that the Phenom-based Athlon would far better in the memory-latency test, however.

HEXUS.PiFast - calculation to 10m places
AMD Athlon X2 7750 BEAMD Athlon X2 6000+Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200
43.441.0139.67


Our single-threaded PiFast test calculates the constant to 10m places. The results are interesting insofar as the 2.7GHz Athlon X2 7750 makes up most of the clock deficit compared to X2 6000+ - 2.7GHz vs. 3.1GHz - via a leaner, meaner architecture. However, the even-slower-clocked E5200, running at 2.5GHz, is faster still.

WinRAR 3.80 compression of 1.2GB file
AMD Athlon X2 7750 BEAMD Athlon X2 6000+Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200
657669.5744.5


But compressing a 1.2GB file into WinRAR is comfortably faster on the X2 7750 than on the Intel equivalent.