AMD Phenom In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis

Overclocking/OC-Team.be by massman @ 2008-12-30

With the upcoming release of the Phenom II we take a look at what we can expect by overclocking every aspect of our Phenom X4 9950 CPU. HT Link, Memory, Northbridge and RAW CPU speed scaling is compared in-depth to help you get the most out of your Phenom setup.

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Test setup and methodology

Test setup

We prepared the following test system to be used for all performance results mentioned on the next pages:

Madshrimps' AMD Test Setup

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CPU
  • AMD Phenom X4 9950
    • Cooling
  • Noctua NH-U12P
    • Mainboard
  • DFI Lanparty DK 790GX-M2RS
    • Memory 2 * 1GB G.skill F2-8500CL5S
    Other
  • Sapphire 4870X2
  • Antec 1000W PSU
  • Western Digital 320Gb SATA HDD
  • Windows XP SP3


    • Methodology

    The following benchmarks were used:

  • Lavalys Everest: Memory latency
  • SuperPi 1M
  • Wprime 32M
  • 3DMark2001SE: Nature

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    Comment from Kougar @ 2009/01/08
    Thought this was a great article...

    Just going to point out that while Phenom II increases performance, Phenom II decreased Uncore clocks from 2GHz to 1.8GHz. So AMD will be gaining that performance back with AM3 DDR3 processors launching soon, which will use a 2GHz Uncore.
    Comment from Massman @ 2009/01/08
    I'm looking quite forward to my PhII sample to compare the performance scaling.

    There's more to tell about the techy aspects of the P2 than one would think. Lostcircuits has some good insights: http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//i...=51&Itemi d=1

     

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