Wednesday, July 23, 2008

AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core

(The previous benchmark report is at NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT.)

Overall with the old CPU (dual-core Athlon64 X2 5200+) was 10283 3DMarks. With the new 2.5GHz quad-core Phenom, I'm seeing:

Dual 8800 GT in NON-SLI mode:

11458 3DMarks
(4723 SM2 4835 HDR 3719 CPU)

Dual 8800 GT in SLI mode:

12844 DMarks
(4731 SM2 6286 HDR 3718 CPU)

The big gain here is the CPU performance, which boosted from ~2000 up to ~3700. The SM2 number got a boost, even without switching to SLI mode while the HDR test took a hit because I wasn't running in SLI mode.

In SLI mode, numbers for SM2 are higher (4700 vs 4300) and HDR is 6300 vs 5800. So between the Phenom CPU and the faster DDR2 800MHz memory (instead of 667MHz), I'm seeing a fairly decent boost without paying an arm and leg. About what I thought I'd see, so I'm pleased.

Labels: 2008, Benchmarks, NVIDIA

posted by Wuphon's at 10:45 PM