Test Setup And Benchmark Settings
| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Hardware | Details |
| Performance Benchmarks | |
| Motherboard (Socket AM3) | Asus Crosshair IV Formula (Rev. 1.0), Chipset: AMD 890FX, BIOS: 0701 (04/02/2010) |
| CPU AMD I | AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (45 nm, 3.2 GHz, 6 x 512KB L2 and 6MB L3 Cache, TDP 125W, Rev. C3) |
| RAM DDR3 | 2 x 2GB DDR3-1333 (OCZ3G2000LV4GK 8-8-8-24) |
| Graphics | Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 GPU: Cypress (725 MHz), Graphics RAM: 1,024MB GDDR5 (2,000 MT/s), Stream Processors: 1,440 |
| Hard Drive | Western Digital VelociRaptor, 300GB (WD3000HLFS) 10,000 RPM, SATA/300, 16MB Cache |
| Power Supply | PC Power & Cooling, Silencer 750EPS12V 750W |
| System Software & Drivers | |
| Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Updated on 2010-03-03 |
| Drivers and Settings | |
| AMD Chipset Drivers | Catalyst 10.3 Motherboard/Chipset Drivers |
| Audio Benchmarks and Settings | |
|---|---|
| Benchmark | Details |
| iTunes | Version: 9.0.3.15 Audio CD ("Terminator II" SE), 53 min. Convert to AAC audio format |
| Lame MP3 | Version 3.98.3 Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 min. Convert WAV to MP3 audio format Command: -b 160 --nores (160 Kbps) |
| Video Benchmarks and Settings | |
| Benchmark | Details |
| HandBrake CLI | Version: 0.94 Video: Big Buck Bunny (720x480, 23.972 frames) 5 min. Audio: Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, 6-channel, English to Video: AVC1 Audio1: AC3 Audio2: AAC (High Profile) |
| MainConcept Reference v2 | Version: 2.0.0.1555 MPEG-2 to H.264 MainConcept H.264/AVC Codec 28 sec. HDTV 1920x1080 (MPEG-2) Audio: MPEG2 (44.1 kHz, 2-channel, 16-bit, 224 Kbps) Codec: H.264 Pro Mode: PAL 50i (25 FPS) Profile: H.264 BD HDMV |
| Application Benchmarks and Settings | |
| Benchmark | Details |
| 7-Zip | Version 9.1 beta LZMA2 Syntax "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=5" Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| WinRAR | Version 3.92 RAR Syntax "winrar a -r -m3" Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| WinZip 14 | Version 14.0 Pro (8652) WinZIP Commandline Version 3 ZIPX Syntax "-a -ez -p -r" Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| Autodesk 3d Studio Max 2010 | Version: 10 x64 Rendering Space Flyby Mentalray (SPECapc_3dsmax9) Frame: 248 Resolution: 1440 x 1080 |
| Cinebench 11.5 | Version 11.5 Build CB25720DEMO CPU Test, single- and multi-threaded |
| Adobe Photoshop CS 4 (64-Bit) | Version: 11 Filtering a 16MB TIF (15000x7266) Filters: Radial Blur (Amount: 10; Method: zoom; Quality: good) Shape Blur (Radius: 46 px; custom shape: Trademark sysmbol) Median (Radius: 1px) Polar Coordinates (Rectangular to Polar) |
| Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional | Version: 9.0.0 (Extended) == Printing Preferenced Menu == Default Settings: Standard == Adobe PDF Security - Edit Menu == Encrypt all documents (128-bit RC4) Open Password: 123 Permissions Password: 321 |
| Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 | Version: 2007 SP2 PPT to PDF PowerPoint Document (115 pages) Adobe PDF-Printer |
| Fritz | Fritz Chess Benchmark Version 4.3.2 |
| Synthetic Benchmarks and Settings | |
| Benchmark | Details |
| 3DMark Vantage | Version: 1.02 Patch 1901 Options: Performance Graphics Test 1 Graphics Test 2 CPU Test 1 CPU Test 2 |
| PCMark Vantage | Version: 1.0.2.0 Patch 1901 PCMark Benchmark Memories Benchmark |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2010 | Version: 2010.1.16.10 Processor Arithmetic, Cryptography, Memory Bandwidth |
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thats a nice motherboard
WinZIP should just be dropped from the benchmarking suite until a multithreaded version comes out. It's always the same, flatline graph.
Interesting article, thanks for the work.
WinZIP should just be dropped from the benchmarking suite until a multithreaded version comes out. It's always the same, flatline graph.
Speaking of graphs.
Toms - The majority of your graphs are in descending order (6 cores to 1), but some of them are ascending. Was a little confusing for a moment until I realized the switch up.
good job on the tests! i have the same complaint: using a 750w psu with a system that uses between 80 to 200watts. a 300-400 watt psu would be best.
the system is idling at 80watts and the system is using a velociraptor (which is not that efficient) and a discrete gpu (idling at ~15watts)... this means you can get this baby to idle at 60watts or so if you use the onboard gpu and a more efficient hdd... and if you use a proper size, efficent psu then this could get even lower. that is so sexy! one could make a silent and efficient system with this. no wonder thubans are in short supply.
and yes... drop that stupid winzip from tests. hardly anybody using that. you can make zips with windows xp. if you are lazy you just trial winrar (indefinetly
) and if you are not lazy you get 7zip.
Winzip is dead. Can you use 7zip from now on please Tom!
Just replace winzip with 7zip it support multi thread if i recall
would have liked to see how much further you could overclock this thing if you're only running 3 or 4 cores.
Thing with lame is that nothing limits you to run it only once, I am usually starting at least 4 of them at once, each using one of my 4 CPU cores. This way it scales even better then most multithread applications.
freaking GRAPH INCONSISTENCY !!!! this seems to be the curse of this site. No one of the reviewers thinks about proper data presentation. If you are graphing 6 to 1 cores performance numbers, do it consistently. that way I can just look at the best result in the graph nad see which one was worst and which one was best. now I need to read the column labels anyway in each graph just to make sure I get the correct information.
also what's with the Cinebench single threaded graph ? all have the same result except single core but top to bottom it goes 4 3 6 5 2 1 !!! WTF !!!!
Normalized Power And Efficiency Results page is all nuts ... the unit is % not Watts
realy crap data presentation in the whole article ...
also what's with the Cinebench single threaded graph ? all have the same result except single core but top to bottom it goes 4 3 6 5 2 1 !!! WTF !!!!
It's ordered from best to worst (top to bottom), but as the graphs are probably auto-generated the labels aren't taken into account and equivalent results don't have any particular order.
Interesting article.
A big jump from a single core to a dual ...
Well done.
Off-topic but I would love an educated answer..
Any news on whether 'Fusion' PPU's will work on existing MB's?
Also I have a doubt about Liano or whatever (the desktop part).. They say that it has the processing power of an HD5770 for graphics calculations but at the same time it's only one unit doing all the maths.. so does this mean that it can reach that goal only when it doesn't have a lot of CPU jobs?
Is it meant to be the winning competitor of SandyBridge or is that what Bulldozer is all about?
Thanks in advance..
And I'd also like some sources for the answers you provide..
Hmmm, it may not be the best "gamer-CPU," but for those less interested in maximum overclocks (such as myself), and/or who multi-task a lot or use well-threaded apps, this chip looks very nice.
Any 'true' reason for the thump down?
Nice article but nothing really shown that 95% of Toms readers didnt already know fairly well.
As Toms has stated a thousand times if you need more cores buy the model with them if you dont stick with the lower core model and save your money, anything else is a waste of money or a crapshot.