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AMD Phenom II X4 940 Processor Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition
Date: Thu, Jan 08, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Chris Morrell -
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wPrime and SuperPi

Here I tested sheer computational power with wPrime and Super Pi. These tests are as synthetic as it gets but are quite important to the overclocking community. SuperPi is a single-threaded application that calculates Pi to a certain number of digits while wPrime calculates the square-root of a number and splits the workload amongst all available cores.

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review

In wPrime it looks like Core i7 struggles with the single-thread results with Phenom scoring decisive victories in the single-threaded instances while Core i7 pulls through in SMP. Super Pi isn't even a contest as it has favored Intel processors since Core Duo.

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Review Index
Page 1 - Phenom, Round Two
Page 2 - Same Architecture, New Process
Page 3 - Compatible Boards
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - Cinebench and POV-Ray
Page 6 - wPrime and SuperPi
Page 7 - 3DMark Vantage and 2006
Page 8 - WinRar and Sandra 2009
Page 9 - Call of Duty 4 and Farcry 2
Page 10 - Crysis and Crysis Warhead
Page 11 - Assassin's Creed and Fallout 3
Page 12 - Company of Heroes and Supreme Commander
Page 13 - Preliminary Overclocking
Page 14 - Power Consumption and Voltage Scaling
Page 15 - Wrap Up and Conclusion