AMD's Phenom X3 8750 test: CineBench 9.5
Single and multi-processor performance in Cinebench10's 3D Render Engine, higher is better. Again, we are looking at approximately 75% of the X4 performance.
The bottom line here is that there do not seem to be any averse effects of an un-even number of core or of the asymmetric distribution of active cores across the die. As long as the application is really CPU limited, the performance scales almost perfectly with the number of execution units and the frequency they are running at.
AMD's Phenom X3 8750AV Digital Content Creation / Media Encoding
Virtualdub / DivX 6.7
Virtualdub 1.7.1 and higher with DivX 6.7 are optimized for SSE4 instructions to provide a significant performance gain over encoding in SSE2 mode. A 66 MB mpg file was converted to AVI format using the DivX 6.7 CODEC.
The CODEC settings were specified as Experimental SSE4 full search set to:
# Disabled
# Enabled using SSE2 / Enabled using SSE4 (Yorkfield)
# with Enhanced multithreading enabled for each mode
All Intel CPU-related data shown were acquired using the ASUS P5K3 with DDR3 running at the highest memory frequency supported for any given CPU - depending on the host bus frequency specification of the processor. Since the memory runs in syncronous mode at its fastest setting, the 1333 MHz processors (333 MHz bus clock) were capable of taking advantage of the same memory frequency, whereas the 1067 MHz CPUs (266 MHz bus clock) were running DDR3 at 1067 MHz data rate and the P4 840 Extreme Edition accessed the memory at 800 MHz. All Phenom-related data were obtained with the ASUS M3A32 MVP-Delux.
AMD's Phenom X3 8750: Gaming Performance 3DMark '06
It is somewhat ironic that the major driving force for computer development, namely gaming, also appears to be the one genre of application that is using the most anachronistic code. In other words, games like Crysis etc are essentially single-threaded and can't take advantage of multiple cores. To the excuse of Crysis and other similar games it has to be said that CPU performance is really not the limiting factor here at all, rather it is the graphics system that holds back gaming performance. Nonetheless, there is a silver lining on the horizon, Epic with their Unreal Engine is taking over the gaming world with an entire slew of the currently best games out there, from Bioshock to UT3 and Timeshift and to add the icing to the cake, all those games are multithreaded. Aside from real games, there is still, however, the mother of all gaming CPU measurements, that is 3DMark '06. Even if it has hardly any practical value, it is an interesting measure of multithreaded processor performance. Needless to say that we are talking about the CPU benchmark only.
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