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[JumpingJack]

At stock, BD is nearly the fastest x264 CPU there is.
At 1st pass, 980x and 2600k do about 95-105 fps, whilst BD does 135 most likely because this pass has less TLP and allows for more turbo.

2nd pass where things get more threaded, 2600k does 36 or so, 980x does 48, and BD scores 45 here.
Probably using all threads and can't consistently turbo, and pass 2 favors Intel a bit more.

EDIT:
Also wins in Fritz.

2600k - 13,017 // 12834 (another source)
2600k at 5.2 - 19288
870 - 11,995 // 875k does 12450
980x - 12,733
1100T - 11,219

BD - 14197

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...0x,2584-8.html

FriTz for a 980 is is > 18000... looks like you took your score from some site that was doing a thread for thread comparison.

[demonkevy666]

It's already mentioned in optimization manual that was released in April. Also AMD promises to fix this in BD version 2.
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/47414.pdf

The chips stepping is right in AIDA, they blocked it on cpu-z lol at that failure OR-B1

turbo not worked good, I thinking...This superpi is near 3600-3700 MHz max. OBRs results with ASUS board are better (and the same CPU)

why does/would turbo be use on all 8 cores ?
I though it was just for single thread and up to 4 core maybe 6.

At stock, BD is nearly the fastest x264 CPU there is.
At 1st pass, 980x and 2600k do about 95-105 fps, whilst BD does 135 most likely because this pass has less TLP and allows for more turbo.

2nd pass where things get more threaded, 2600k does 36 or so, 980x does 48, and BD scores 45 here.
Probably using all threads and can't consistently turbo, and pass 2 favors Intel a bit more.

EDIT:
Also wins in Fritz.

2600k - 13,017 // 12834 (another source)
2600k at 5.2 - 19288
870 - 11,995 // 875k does 12450
980x - 12,733
1100T - 11,219

BD - 14197

Fritz uses >4 threads. i5 750 scaled to 870 clock speeds = 9 355; with Hyperthreading it's 12k or so.

fritz does use more then 4 threads I test it on My thuban at 4.0ghz and 3.0ghz Nb with 2000mhz ram I get around 13,000 relative speed is about 27.5

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...0x,2584-8.html

FriTz for a 980 is is > 18000... looks like you took your score from some site that was doing a thread for thread comparison.

scaling isn't linear that's all.

[JumpingJack]

scaling isn't linear that's all.

Scaling is definitely Not linear with SMT or CMT designs and, in multithreaded designs, it is OS dependent especially between Vista and 7 where 7's scheduler is much better.

[Dresdenboy]

why does/would turbo be use on all 8 cores ?
I though it was just for single thread and up to 4 core maybe 6.

Because it could.

[XRL8]

Because it could.

Article at donanhimber states that CPU they used is 3.2ghz, but it has 3.6ghz turbo ON ALL 8 cores ,and 4.2Ghz at 4 cores.
So in reality cpu ran 3.2->4.2ghz in those tests, depending on the software.

[informal]

DH's ES has no Turbo working,or not properly working at least.It's quite obvious when you look at super pi result(lower than what that Czech guy posted by exactly 1Ghz :19s @ 3.2Ghz for DH ES and 14.5s @ 4.2Ghz for "blogger's" ES).

[Dresdenboy]

DH's ES has no Turbo working,or not properly working at least.It's quite obvious when you look at super pi result(lower than what that Czech guy posted by exactly 1Ghz :19s @ 3.2Ghz for DH ES and 14.5s @ 4.2Ghz for "blogger's" ES).

But AIDA shows 4.2GHz: http://www.donanimhaber.com/islemci/...onuclari_8.htm
However, there are more than one way to throttle SuperPi performance, e.g. memory configuration.

[demonkevy666]

But AIDA shows 4.2GHz: http://www.donanimhaber.com/islemci/...onuclari_8.htm
However, there are more than one way to throttle SuperPi performance, e.g. memory configuration.

It's single threaded when you do the cache and memory bench.