AMD Shanghai/Deneb Review Thread

[Lightman]

Thanks iocedmyself, great work you're doing here. That first score at 3.6Ghz didn't look pretty for the phenom II though, as it was 22% percent i7 (no one in their right mind would turn HT on for gaming, that anomally is well established), vs Phenom II 70%. Am I the only one noticing that huge gap? Are you sure no other process was stealing huge cpu cycles? Good job man, keep up the good work.

Simple explanation:

GTA IV can spawn 3 threads which can utilize CPU fairly well. For that reason Single, Dual and Triple-Core will show CPU utilization close to 100%!
Quad-Core will be utilized in 75% assuming no other thread is using it and GTA IV will extract everything from remaining 3 cores.
Six-Core CPU will hit max. 50% utilization.
8 cores/threads can be utilized 37% by GTA IV!
Now Core i7 is not hitting close to theoretical 37% and the reason for that can be either HT lowering utilization or GPU saturation (in other words CPU too fast for a given GPU).

Is that clear enough?