AMD's Athlon II X3 435 & New Energy Efficient CPUs: Killing Intel Below $90
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 20, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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3dsmax 9 - SPECapc 3dsmax CPU Rendering Test
Today's desktop processors are more than fast enough to do professional level 3D rendering at home. To look at performance under 3dsmax we ran the SPECapc 3dsmax 8 benchmark (only the CPU rendering tests) under 3dsmax 9 SP1. The results reported are the rendering composite scores:
Compared to the Intel dual-core options, the Athlon II X3 435 is a definite winner here. It's got the core count and clock speed to beat the old Penryn derivatives. Its biggest competition comes from its own family, the Athlon II X4 620 is the better buy here.
Cinebench R10
Created by the Cinema 4D folks we have Cinebench, a popular 3D rendering benchmark that gives us both single and multi-threaded 3D rendering results.
As I've been mentioning this entire time, the Athlon II X3 435 doesn't really sacrifice clock speed in its three-core configuration. At 2.9GHz even its single threaded performance is comparable to the Pentium E6300. Run a multithreaded app however and the performance goes from parity to leading:
POV-Ray 3.73 beta 23 Ray Tracing Performance
POV-Ray is a popular, open-source raytracing application that also doubles as a great tool to measure CPU floating point performance.
I ran the SMP benchmark in beta 23 of POV-Ray 3.73. The numbers reported are the final score in pixels per second.
The POV-Ray results echo what we've been seeing thus far, vs. Intel there's no contest - the 435 is the better value. Compared to the quad-core Athlon IIs however, the 435 isn't very good.
Blender 2.48a
Blender is an open source 3D modeling application. Our benchmark here simply times how long it takes to render a character that comes with the application.
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maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
It's funny how some people here are trying to guesstimate. I'm not an AMDiot like snakeoil.kiwik - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Exactly, you're the omega to his alpha, whatever that means.maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Whatever, please you must notice that everyone in Intel Investorhub website and AiMeD Corporation blogs have been talk like me that AMD will be doomed with its own not so competence in developing its products.kiwik - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Cool story bro.qwertymac93 - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
you suck at english...and life 0_0maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
I don't care about it becaue I can't make any change with my comment.maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
I don't care your suggestion. I could not edit my previous comment.RubberJohnny - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
I didn't want to stoop to your level but...you speak the truth.Maddoctor you are a retard...have fun paying $1000 for your i3 when your intel monopoly wet dream comes true.
maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Intel products are cheaper. Price/performance ration is more favourable to Intel products. Only AMDiot will like AMD products. And Intel is not monopoly, this is the nature capitalism folks, if you don't have any competitive product, it is a grant to a company with the best product to crush you.tamalero - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link
lol, this guy is for Intel-AMD what silicondoc was for ATI-NVIDIA.I wonder if Dailytech checked if its the same troll.