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Review: AMD Phenom II: striking back with a vengeance?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 8 January 2009, 05:00 3.35

Tags: Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition, Phenom II X4 920, AMD (NYSE:AMD), PC

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Multi-threaded goodness

DivX 6.8.3 + LAME encoding, enhanced multithreading on
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200Intel Core i7 920AMD Phenom II 920Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300AMD Phenom X4 9950 BEAMD Phenom II 940 BE
304215.2275.64283330259.92


CINEBENCH R10 64-bit - multi-CPU render
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200Intel Core i7 920AMD Phenom II 920Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300AMD Phenom X4 9950 BEAMD Phenom II 940 BE
99651529211848109631038412441


Pov-ray 3.7.0 beta 25a - 64-bit
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200Intel Core i7 920AMD Phenom II 920Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300AMD Phenom X4 9950 BEAMD Phenom II 940 BE
1902.273265.52188.372054.811729.682331.4


wPrime multithreaded - 1024M calculation
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200Intel Core i7 920AMD Phenom II 920Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300AMD Phenom X4 9950 BEAMD Phenom II 940 BE
524290.5411.52488459387.03


Interestingly, the Phenom II 940 and 920 have the beating of the £200 Core 2 Quad in each of our multi-threaded benchmarks, but have to give way, easily, to superior technology in the form of the Core i7 920.