Interesting Results with the X3 720

Flipped Gazelle

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Originally posted by: jibberishballr
From the encoding test it shows it performs almost identical with the X4 920!
It also got a overall higher score for their tests.

I linked to that page.

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/...-2-720-810-920-p3.html

"Total Professional Score"
X3 720 - 109
X4 920 - 112

"Total Non-Professional Score"
X3 720 - 105
X4 920 - 107

"Overall Score"
X3 720 - 107
X4 920 - 110

The 920 consistently edges the 720.

Benchmarks are as dependent on the software used as the CPU itself. Is the software multi-core friendly? Is the software tri-core friendly? Some software benefits as much from the increased L3$/Core ratio of the X3's as it does to the 4th core of the 920.