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AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 8th Jan 2009 |
| Manufacturer | AMD |
| Price | £199.99 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £229.99 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersWhile many people will associate 3D performance with a graphics card, for CAD applications a lot of the grunt work is still performed on CPUs so this is something we've put to the test. We use two industry standard tests, called POV-Ray and Cinebench. Both programs can be freely downloaded and the benchmark begins with just a single click so they're a really easy comparison tool if you fancy seeing how your system shapes up.
Cinebench has both a single-threaded and multi-threaded test while POV-Ray is just multi-threaded. Slightly disappointingly, Cinebench only returns a score, rather than a time to completion, so the numbers in isolation don't really mean anything. However, when compared they adequately show up any difference in performance.
Cinebench
We're definitely starting to see a trend now. Phenom II is a significant step up from what came before but clock for clock it still can't come close to the competition from Intel. And when you take multi-threaded performance into account the decision seems even clearer.
POV-Ray
Yup, more of the same here.
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supersizeme said on 11th January 2009
wiak said on 2nd February 2009
edward you might want to trow in a Q9400/Q9300 as a direct comparison based on price
as all the intels cpus in this review is all above $300, the i7 920 platform cost twice ... more
kois30 said on 12th March 2009
i know this is off topic but "empire total war" is still slow on this cpu even when overclocked to 3.2ghz. the load time is killing it.
Menahunie said on 25th April 2009
Ya know from reading this thread; my conclusion is this.
This is no different than the arguement over Chevy vs. Ford and who is better.
All I have seen is nothing but... more
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I agree it would be advantageous to see this processor compared with the Q6600. The decision is either plop a 6600 into the motherboard, Jump to core i7 or switch to AMD. The Q66... more