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AMD 3500+ Mid-Range CPU - AM2 vs S939 Comparison

CPU by piotke @ 2006-05-30

Last week AMD launched their new AM2 platform, we take a look at what performance difference you can expect at the mid-range side of things, with the help of local computer shop Forcom we compared two AMD 3500+ systems, one based on AM2 one on Socket 939.

Performance at stock 3500+ Speeds

Performance at stock 3500+ speeds – 2200Mhz

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SuperPi is quite CPU and Memory intensive, the S939 takes the lead.

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Futuremark’s 3DMark benchmarks also tend to favor the S939 platform

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Although at playable resolutions (1024x768 and up) there is hardly any difference, at lower resolutions the bottleneck becomes the CPU and memory subsystem, the S939 has a nice lead here.

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Sisoft Sandra 2007 CPU benchmark is a very close match

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The AM2 has a theoretical higher memory bandwidth and this synthetic benchmark proves it.

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The Hard drive benchmark of Sisoft Sandra gives the same result on both systems, while in the memory/cache benchmark the S939 has a very small lead.

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