This morning I finally received my Phenom II X4 940BE!
Here it is:
and here you can see how nicely it looks in a socket:
I've spend some time running power consumption and benchmark comparison between Phenom 9950BE @3.0GHz NB2.0GHz RAM 1066MHz 5-5-5-15-25 2T and Phenom II X4 940BE @3.0GHz NB2.0GHz RAM 1066 5-5-5-15-25 2T
Note: For power consumption tests my HD4870 is clocked 625(500MHz desktop)/465MHz to save power. Everything else as in my SIG. RAM set in BIOS @2.05V
For game and application testing my HD4870 is set to 825MHz/950MHz
All tests are run on Vista Business x64 SP1 with all latest patches. Power options are set to High Performance which means C'n'Q is DISABLED!
Every test was ran at least 2 times and second test result was taken to minimize HDD activity influence on scores.
Cooling: AIR TT120Ultra + 120mm FAN 12V, ambient temp for first runs on Phenom 9950 around 16C-17C, later runs were 19C-21C.
Below are my findings:
Lets start form Power Consumption:
Phenom I 3GHz/1.32V after 15min. full load - 283Watt
Phenom II 3GHz/1.36V after 15min. full load - 241Watt
Special for BertM
Phenom II 3GHz/1.32V after 40min. full load - 233Watt (Higher NB @2.2GHz/ RAM@2.15V instead 2.05 like for previous runs - I will re-run this test properly later)
EDIT re-tested with 1.32vCore NB@2GHz RAM@2.05V - 230Watt
Phenom I 3GHz/1.32V idle - 238W
Phenom II 3.0GHz/1.36V idle - 190Watt
Phenom I 1.2GHz/1.05V after 15min. full load - 206Watt
Phenom II 1.2GHz/1.05V after 15min. full load - 185Watt
Phenom II 1.2GHz/1.05V idle - 176Watt
----> Undervolting<----
Phenom II 1.2GHz/0.88V after 15min. full load - 179W
Phenom II 1.2GHz/0.8V after 20min. full load - 177W
---->Benchmarks<----
Applications:
Cinebench R10 x64 - look at highlighted and top line
clarification - both Phenom I and II are using exactly same setting: 3001MHz core / 2277MHz NB / 1102MHz RAM
Cinebench 2003 x64 - look at the top 2 lines
Phenom 9950 - KirbiBench City - 14.67FPS
Phenom II 940 - KirbiBench City - 15.69FPS
Phenom 9950 - KirbiBench Ultra - 4.08FPS
Phenom II 940 - KirbiBench Ultra - 4.24FPS
RealStorm2006 - Test1 640x480 - Ref. System --> Phenom 9950 @3.0GHz / Base System --> Phenom II 940 @3.0GHz
RealStorm2006 - Test2 640x480 - Ref. System --> Phenom 9950 @3.0GHz / Base System --> Phenom II 940 @3.0GHz
RealStorm2006 - Test3 1024x768 - Ref. System --> Phenom 9950 @3.0GHz / Base System --> Phenom II 940 @3.0GHz
RealStorm2006 - Test4 640x480 - Ref. System --> Phenom 9950 @3.0GHz / Base System --> Phenom II 940 @3.0GHz
RealStorm2006 - Test5 640x480 - Ref. System --> Phenom 9950 @3.0GHz / Base System --> Phenom II 940 @3.0GHz
Generic CPU Bench - Phenom 9950 - 21.366KB/s
Generic CPU Bench - Phenom II 940 - 21.489KB/s
Phenom 9950 - mBench v1.0 memory test
Access latency - 55.9 ns (146 clocks) wrong value calculated from 2.6GHz startup CPU speed. In reality CPU 3012MHz.
Read datarate (INT) 4702 Mb/s
Write datarate (INT) 3355 Mb/s
Read datarate (MMX) 6334 Mb/s
Write datarate (MMX) 4019 Mb/s
Read datarate (SSE) 6481 Mb/s
Write datarate (SSE) 5032 Mb/s
Phenom II 940 - mBench v1.0 memory test
Access latency - 53.7 ns (162 clocks)
Read datarate (INT) 5403 Mb/s
Write datarate (INT) 3773 Mb/s
Read datarate (MMX) 6986 Mb/s
Write datarate (MMX) 4427 Mb/s
Read datarate (SSE) 7063 Mb/s
Write datarate (SSE) 6485 Mb/s
KMB v0.57x64 Fractal Benchmark
Link to executable ---> 0.57x64.zip
Results ---> results.txt
GAMES:
Phenom 9950 - Crysis x64 1280x1024x32 noAA - Avg. 26.93FPS
Phenom II 940 - Crysis x64 1280x1024x32 noAA - Avg. 33.26FPS (sorry for wrong label)
Phenom 9950 - Crysis x64 1680x1050x32 noAA - Avg. 25.45FPS
Phenom II 940 - Crysis x64 1680x1050x32 noAA - Avg. 29.26FPS (sorry for wrong label)
Phenom 9950 - PT Boats DX10 High 1280x1024x32 noAA - Avg. 39.1FPS
Phenom II 940 - PT Boats DX10 High 1280x1024x32 noAA - Avg. 45.7FPS
Phenom 9950 - PT Boats DX10 High 1680x1050x32 noAA - Avg. 38.1FPS
Phenom II 940 - PT Boats DX10 High 1680x1050x32 noAA - Avg. 43.1FPS
Phenom 9950 - Quake II 1280x960x32 noAA
Demo1.dm2 / Demo2.dm2
Run 1 - 785FPS / 776FPS
Run 2 - 770FPS / 779FPS
Run 3 - 775FPS / 775FPS
Phenom II 940 - Quake II 1280x960x32 noAA
Demo1.dm2 / Demo2.dm2
Run 1 - 847FPS / 834FPS
Run 2 - 831FPS / 845FPS
Run 3 - 852FPS / 837FPS
Phenom 9950 - Quake II 1600x1200x32 noAA
Demo1.dm2 / Demo2.dm2
Run 1 - 782FPS / 786FPS
Run 2 - 766FPS / 790FPS
Run 3 - 775FPS / 762FPS
Phenom II 940 - Quake II 1600x1200x32 noAA
Demo1.dm2 / Demo2.dm2
Run 1 - 839FPS / 845FPS
Run 2 - 848FPS / 826FPS
Run 3 - 824FPS / 850FPS
Phenom 9950 - Quake III Arena 1280x1024x32 noAA
Demo FOUR.DM68
Run 1 - 596FPS
Run 2 - 611FPS
Run 3 - 603FPS
Phenom II 940 - Quake III Arena 1280x1024x32 noAA
Demo FOUR.DM68
Run 1 - 680FPS
Run 2 - 672FPS
Run 3 - 680FPS
Phenom 9950 - Quake III Arena 1600x1200x32 noAA
Demo FOUR.DM68
Run 1 - 586FPS
Run 2 - 596FPS
Run 3 - 601FPS
Phenom II 940 - Quake III Arena 1600x1200x32 noAA
Demo FOUR.DM68
Run 1 - 662FPS
Run 2 - 672FPS
Run 3 - 668FPS
----> SUMMARY<----
First impression is very positive! Just look at LOAD power consumption between Phenom 9950 and 940. What's amazing is that at 3GHz old CPU needs as much juice in IDLE as new one FULL LOAD!
Then there is undervolting and another big surprise. This CPU can reliably operate at only 0.8V 1.2GHz. I have tried 1.4GHz but this ended up by BSOD.
In my short performance review I've tried to use applications different than rest of my colleagues. But even old games like Q2/Q3 and applications improved IPC by 5-15%! Newer applications which are designed with SSE and larger caches in mind can extract even greater boost from tweaks AMD did to Phenom II!
I'm really happy with my new CPU and finally I can utilize this great motherboard in a way I was intending from beginning.
Quick few words about OC. HTT clocking is much easier with new Phenom II, I've struggled to get 230HTT on older CPU, but 267HTT was quite easy with new processor. AOD is working great, except a bug with false clock reading, but this can be fixed by loading BIOS defaults. I'm still exploring limits of my sample on AIR, but so far 3.8GHz CPU 2.9GHz NB looks to be stable. 3.93GHz Cinebench stable for now and finally 4GHz+ only for SuperPi or other single threaded apps.
I hope you enjoyed my tests and that it will help few people make their minds!
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