AMD Phenom II Arrives – 45nm Deneb and Dragon Platform
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K10 Test System
Motherboard: MSI DKA790GX (Supplied by MSI)
Memory: 2x2GB Aeneon DDR2-1200 Xtune (Supplied by Aeneom)
Hard Disk: Intel X-25M 80GB SSD (Supplied by Intel)
Graphics Card: GIGABYTE 9800GX2 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Cooling: GIGABYTE 3D Galaxy II (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista x64 SP1
Drivers: ATI Catalyst 8.12, NVIDIA ForceWare 180.24
Intel Core 2 Test System
Motherboard: GIGABYTE X48T-DQ6 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Memory: 2x2GB Corsair PC3-1600 (Supplied by Corsair)
Hard Disk: Intel X-25M 80GB SSD (Supplied by Intel)
Graphics Card: GIGABYTE 9800GX2 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Cooling: GIGABYTE 3D Galaxy II (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista x64 SP1
Drivers: Intel INF 9.0.0.1008, NVIDIA ForceWare 180.24
Core i7 Test System
Motherboard: ASUS P6T Deluxe (Supplied by ASUS)
Memory: 3x2GB Corsair Triple Channel PC3-1600 (Supplied by Corsair)
Hard Disk: Intel X-25M 80GB SSD (Supplied by Intel)
Graphics Card: GIGABYTE 9800GX2 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Cooling: GIGABYTE 3D Galaxy II (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista x64 SP1
Drivers: Intel INF 9.0.0.1008, NVIDIA ForceWare 180.24
Today we have three major platforms on the bench. First we have the K8/10 setup using the Dragon platform. While Phenom II isn’t designed to directly compete with the Core i7, we thought it was a good idea to throw in the results for reference. However, the Core 2 Extreme that it’s designed to take on is included and we have given you a full lust of results here today. So without any further delays, off we go.
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Phenom II seems to be lacking any real CPU power, even when compared to the Core 2 series and is certainly much less than Core i7. It seems that the extra cache isn’t helping AMD much here. Memory performance is good since the on die memory controller remains intact.
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