AMD Venice - Testing
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This is going to be straight forword. I'm going to use the same set up, but I'll switch CPUs and reset the CMOS between the chips. The tests won’t focus on gaming like pervious reviews, but more on some of the various jobs a CPU may be called on to perform. The test computer looks like this:
- DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D
- OCZ Platinum PC4800
- X300SE
- OCZ PowerStream 520
- Windows XP x64
Sandra
The Sandra suite of programs tests the theoretical performance of the parts of the computer. The tests used are geared at the CPU. This should be one of the tests that show the biggest difference in the two cores. It tests everything each core can do, not how it is utilized like in the other tests. This version is complied for 64-bit.
Games
Time for some gaming. As I said, I’m not going to go too far into gaming performance as there are other areas that will effect gaming more, but it is still worth checking out. The games are going to be Far Cry, Doom 3, and Half-Life 2.
The results are all basically the same. The newer core does not make a difference in gaming. All the scores were too close to make a difference. Any gains or loses are within the error range of a few runs, and with more testing the averages would have been the same. If I had overclocked both chips, however, the winner would be obvious.
SuperPi
This is a simple test that calculates the digits of pi, which is a good test for number-crunching processors.
Once again, the difference is within the margin of error. It would also probably average out the same over many tests.
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