So how much performance difference does 600MHz and 2MB of cache add to the picture when compared to the AMD Phenom II X4 810 that we use for our AM3 motherboard platform? To test it out I put together a motherboard with 2GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR3-2000, an ASUS CROSSHAIR III motherboard, two 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 Mode and tested both CPUs with the standard test suite.
Test System
- AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition CPU running at 3.2GHz
- AMD Phenom II X4 810 CPU running at 2.6GHz
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs 10000RPM in RAID 0 mode
- 2GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR3-2000 memory running at 1333MHz
- ASUS CROSSHAIR III motherboard running latest drivers and BIOS
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB running Catalyst 9.6 Drivers
- Cooler Master Ultimate 1000W PSU
- Cooler Master CPU cooler
- Windows Vista with SP1 installed
Tests
- Sisoft Sandra Professional CPU Arithmetic benchmark
- Bapco Sysmark 2007 with Patch 5
- Futuremark 3DMark06
- Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
- SpecViewPerf 10
- PCMark05
- PCMark Vantage
- Pifast
- wPrime
- CPUBench 2003
- Crystalmark 2004
- X264 HD Benchmark
