Benchmarks: AMD's Phenom II

Kai Schmerer ZDNet Germany

Published: 30 Jan 2009

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Application performance: encryption, compression, internet TrueCrypt and 7-Zip are designed to extract optimal performance from the CPU's arithmetic and logic units. The dual-core Core 2 Duo E8500 processor cannot keep up with the quad-core chips. When it comes to compression and decompression with 7-Zip, Intel's Core i7 920 puts on the best show by some margin — twice the performance of the slow Core 2 Duo E8500. The Phenom II processors also make the dual-core look old. In the TrueCrypt benchmark, the Phenom IIs even match or outstrip Intel's latest Core i7 920.

Modern internet applications make much use of JavaScript and run faster on quad-core processors than on dual-core chips (see the SunSpider Javascript test results). However, for simple HTML pages the dual-core processor is faster than the quad-core chips.

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