AMD Phenom II X4 940 and 920 CPUs

Written by Richard Swinburne

January 8, 2009 | 05:23

Tags: #2 #45nm #920 #940 #benchmarks #core #cpu #ii #oc #overclock #overclocking #perform #performance #phenom #processor #quad #result #review #soi #testing #x4

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Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Crysis is seen by many as the poster boy for DirectX 10 and it will make your system quite literally fall over crying if it's not up to – it’s a monster of an engine! It doesn’t come as much of a surprise then, that the graphics are something special – they’re above and beyond anything we’ve ever seen in a PC game even still. We used the latest 1.21 patch and range the game in 64-bit and DirectX 10 mode in a custom level run through.

Crysis

1680x1050 0AA 0AF, All High Settings

  • Core i7 965 (4x3.2GHz, 6.4GHz QPI, SMT enabled)
  • Core i7 940 (4x2.93GHz, 4.8GHz QPI, SMT enabled)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (4x3.2GHz, 1,600MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (4x3.2GHz, 1,600MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core i7 920 (4x2.66GHz, 4.8GHz QPI, SMT enabled)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9650 (4x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9650 (4x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9550 (4x2.83GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9450 (4x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9550 (4x2.83GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9450 (4x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • AMD Phenom II X4 940 (4x3.0GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.66GHz, 1,066MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • AMD Phenom II X4 920 (4x2.8GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.66GHz, 1,066MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • AMD Phenom II X4 (4x2.6GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE (4x2.6GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • AMD Phenom X4 9850 BE (4x2.5GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X3 8750 BE (3x2.4GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE (2x2.7GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
    • 41.7
    • 40.8
    • 39.8
    • 39.3
    • 39.0
    • 38.9
    • 38.7
    • 38.4
    • 38.3
    • 38.2
    • 38.0
    • 37.9
    • 37.8
    • 36.9
    • 36.7
    • 35.9
    • 35.5
    • 34.8
    • 32.3
    • 31.4
    • 30.2
    • 29.1
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The Phenom II 940 is quite a bit faster than the previous Phenoms, making use of that extra MHz more than anything, but it's still not enough to keep up with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 and Q9550, or even the Core 2 Duo E8500 CPUs which nose out ahead slightly faster, yet have a lower core clock.

It's a good step up for the Phenom IIs, but we still needed more.
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