Efficiency: Optimizing The Clock Rate Of AMD's Phenom II X6
AMD’s six-core CPU is affordable (at least, compared to Intel's Core i7-980X). We're overclocking the Thuban design to see if its efficiency improves from faster clock rates. Comparisons to other quad- and hexa-core processors provide some perspective.
Benchmark Results: Applications
Our 3.8 GHz overclocking improves the six-core’s performance quite a bit, allowing it to easily overtake the much more expensive Intel processors.
PDF creation from a massive PowerPoint presentation doesn’t benefit that much from overclocking.
Cinebench’s single-thread workload proves that the AMD cores are capable of competing with Intel.
Once we switch to the multi-threaded version, Phenom II X6 can take advantage of all six cores. The Intel Gulftown-based Core i7-980X remains superior.
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