Higher Clock Speeds, No TLB Issues and Better Pricing: The New Phenom
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 27, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Photoshop and Valve Multithreaded Game Dev Benchmarks
Adobe Photoshop CS3
To measure performance in Adobe's Photoshop CS3 we turned to the Retouch Artists CS3 benchmark. The test cycles through a handful of commonly used filters and is timed manually. We ran the benchmark at its default settings.
Our Photoshop test favors Intel's Core 2 Quads over the new Phenom processors; the Q9300 will only make matters worse for AMD.
Valve Map Compilation
Valve supplied us with their VRAD map compilation tool to measure the performance of compiling Source engine maps.
Valve's map compile test has Intel in the lead, but AMD is able to at least keep up with the Q6600.
Valve Particle Benchmark
Particle systems are an important aspect of CPU performance in 3D games, although this benchmark does overstate its importance a bit. However, it does give one aspect of how more cores can be used in future games.
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Margalus - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - link
intel did not do "paper launch" of the wolfdale. They are just popular. If you can't find one, you aren't looking very hard. I've had an e8400 for over a month now, and have seen them in stock at multiple places since then.The Jedi - Monday, April 7, 2008 - link
Aside of the E8400 being faster than the E6850, they $#%@ed up the industry by pricing it considerably cheaper, creating massive demand, while being unprepared to fill that demand. The E8400 supplies dried up leading to scalping on eBay.Now supplies of the E8400 have returned and the price is around where it ought to be. Hopefully Intel will keep it together.
stinkyj - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - link
i see stock for 8400 too, but i see a wide variance in pricing. in stock == inflated price.sc3252 - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - link
Its nice to see some competition in the quad core arena. AMD isnt the fastest, but it does put out a competitive enough part for now. Hopefully in the next 3-4 months they will release faster cpu's to up the ante.mlau - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - link
The LDAP guys think the new Phenoms are quite impressive:http://connexitor.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=191">http://connexitor.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=191
They don't win against Intel on all irrelevant benchmarks (3dmark and
the other synthetic crap), but fare quite well in server workloads.