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.

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Overclocking Performance Scaling

Overclocking Performance Scaling

Overclocking the AM2 system was hampered by the Twinmos memory, which only reached 525Mhz DDR2 (close to PC5300) at CL4 4-4-12 2T. Without touching the memory divisor options this resulted in an FSB increase from 200Mhz to 215Mhz, CPU speed from 2200Mhz to 2365Mhz. Not too impressive and at 215Mhz FSB the system failed to complete several benchmarks and wasn’t very stable.

To see how the system would scale when overclocked we tested at 200/205/210/215Mhz FSB and did the same on the S939 system. These are the results

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With the extra bandwidth from the overclocked DDR2 memory the AM2 system closes on the DDR1 powered setup, do note that the DDR1 timings are quite relaxed at CL2.5-4-4-8.

More DDR2 Performance scaling on the next page ->
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