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: Synthetics
Overclocking the Phenom II X6 moves it above the performance level of Intel’s quad-core processors, with the exception of memory bandwidth and AES encryption/decryption, which is heavily accelerated by AES-NI in Intel’s 32 nm processor generation.
Our Thuban overclocking results are impressive. The processor is much stronger than Intel’s 45 nm offerings in AES encryption. However, having access to an instruction set that is specifically designed for this type of workload has a much greater impact, as you can see from the 32 nm Core i7-980X.
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