Phenom X3 tested

JPB

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Phenom X3 tested, faster than an X2

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German magazine disables one core

PC Gaming Hardware in Germany has what appears to be the first ever Phenom X3 benchmarks, but what they've done is dissable one of the three cores on a Phenom X4 9600 clocked at 2.3GHz. This might be something close to what the real deal will perform like, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Their simulated X3 processor is faster than their 2.3GHz Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and another simulated processor, a Phenom X2 at 2.3GHz, which was the same Phenom X4 9600 but with two cores dissabled.

It didn't come close an Intel Q6600 that was also used for comparative testing and the benchmarks were limited to WinRAR, Cinebench R10 and 3DMark06's CPU test. As everyone has already guessed by now, three cores are faster than two, but not as fast as four, so there you are.
 

A554SS1N

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Cheers for this - interesting to see how little performance per clock is gained when comparing the Phenom X2 to the old X2 :/
 

JPB

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I'm not sure what you mean A554SS1N...do you mean that you don't understand how a Triple core can *only* be that much faster than a dual core? or ?
 

Ika

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Originally posted by: JPB
I'm not sure what you mean A554SS1N...do you mean that you don't understand how a Triple core can *only* be that much faster than a dual core? or ?

I think he means the improvement of Phenom over the old X2s is disappointing (both being dual-cores).
 

firewolfsm

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I'm confused with that, the transistor count per core went up a lot but performance didn't scale accordingly, I guess CPUs really aren't like other processors (GPUs)
 

nitromullet

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I'd have to agree... That is a pretty disappointing showing for the Phenom X2 vs the A64 X2. I don't really know what to make of that either... At least with the ATI division AMD increased performance significantly with RV670 over R600, even if they still didn't catch NVIDIA's year old G80 or the new G92.