4600+ CPUZ
3800+ CPUZ
AMD decided to provide us with a ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard for testing of the Energy Efficient CPUs. I felt it was prudent to do the performance on the supplied motherboard. I also included scores from the 5000+ on this motherboard to give a sense of performance against the fastest non FX CPU. This should give an excellent overview of the CPU market. On the Intel side of things, I used a 3.8 GHz 670, a X6800 and the E6700, the only Intel CPUs I had available.
The tests I decided to use were the same as our Intel and AMD platform benchmarks. The games Doom 3 and FEAR are two of the most demanding games on OpenGL and Direct3D, the benchmarks 3Dmark06 and 05 are the two latest versions of Futuremark's benchmark and Sysmark 2004 is a good system benchmark. SuperPi measures the time it takes the CPU to calculate a certain number of digits of Pi. I chose 1 million digits as a nice round number.
AMD Test System
- 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
- 2.0GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
- 2.6GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
- 2.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 FX-62
- ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard GeForce 6150+nForce 430
- 2 GB Corsair DDR2 PC-6400 533MHz memory
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA 10000 RPM HDDs
- XFX 7900GT running 91.31 Forceware 520/720 core/memory clock
Intel Test System
- Intel 2.93GHz X6800
- Intel 2.66GHz E6700
- Intel 975XBX motherboard
- 2 GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC-5300 667MHz memory
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA 10000 RPM HDDs
- XFX 7900GT running 91.31 Forceware 520/720 core/memory
Test Software
- F.E.A.R. 1024x768 max settings no AA no AF Performance test
- Doom 3 1024x768 Max Settings no AA no AF Timedemo 1
- 3Dmark06 1280x1024 default run no AA no AF
- 3Dmark05 1024x768 default run no AA no AF
- Aquamark 3 1024x768 default run no AA 4x AF
- Sysmark 2004 Patch 2
- Sisoft Sandra 2005 Memory Test
- PCMark04 Memory test
- PCMark05
- SuperPi 1 Million digits calculated
