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Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Einleitung

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Benchmarks

3

Benchmark: UT3

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Benchmark: CoD 4

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Conclusion

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Benchmarks

Unreal Tournament 3 shows the potential of the new Phenom II-series: Running at identical clock speeds of 2.7 GHz the simulated Phenom II X4 clearly beats the (overclocked) Phenom X4 9950 BE: 175.1 to 129.5 FPS in 1280x1024 and 167.6 to 128.2 FPS in 1680x1050 using high detail settings. But the Core i7 920 with its slightly lower clock speed of 2.66 GHz is still ahead of the Phenom II with 202.4 to 175.1 FPS (1280x1024) and 188,1 to 167.6 FPS (1680x1050).

In Call of Duty 4 the new Phenom II X4 is slower than its predecessor for no apparent reason. Even though we double-checked the BIOS and the game settings, the Phenom II X4 only managed 117.3 FPS (1280x1024) compared to the Phenom X4 9950 BE with 126.8 FPS, both using the same settings. This gap can also be seen in 1680x1050 with 106.8 (Phenom II X4) to 119.2 FPS (Phenom X4 9950 BE).

The internal benchmark of the compression tool WinRAR confirms the performance advantage of the Phenom X4 compared to its predecessor seen in Unreal Tournament 3 – with 1,528 KB/s it compresses data noticeably faster than the Phenom X4 9950 BE with 1,318 KB/s, both running with identical clock speeds. In optimized multimedia applications like WinRAR, Intel managed to almost double the performance going from Core 2 to Core i7 (see: Core i7 put to the test (in German)). AMD doesn't achieve anything similar with the Phenom II X4 – but that's no surprise given that there are hardly any technical differences between both generations of Phenom processors.