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Phenom II X4 gains a lot from L3 cache and better IPC |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Friday, 28 November 2008 10:11 |
Compared to K10
Overall you can expect the 3GHz Phenom X4 II 940 to end up about 20
percent faster than the currently fastest 2.6GHz Phenom X4 9950.
The additional
6MB of L3 cache will get you a performance increase of around 5 percent, while the IPC
and core enhancements will get the performance up to three percent up,
compared to the previous K10, Agena generation. If you compare 3GHz Phenom II
to 2.6GHz Phenom 4 9950 you will get a 12 percent performance increase
based on the clock speed.
Once Phenom II X4 move to DDR3 you should expect an additional
5 percent performance increase resulting with total 25 percent performance increase
compared to the fastest Phenom X4 9950 with TDP at 140W.
The TPD of Phenom II at 3GHz is at 125W and this CPU will
come unlocked and ready to overclock all the way to 4GHz on air. As you can see
AMD did a good job, making its CPU much better than the previous
design.
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