AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Quad-Core Processor Review

wPrime

wPrime is a leading multithreaded benchmark for x86 processors that tests your processor performance by calculating square roots with a recursive call of Newton’s method for estimating functions, with f(x)=x2-k, where k is the number we’re sqrting, until Sgn(f(x)/f'(x)) does not equal that of the previous iteration, starting with an estimation of k/2. It then uses an iterative calling of the estimation method a set amount of times to increase the accuracy of the results. It then confirms that n(k)2=k to ensure the calculation was correct. It repeats this for all numbers from 1 to the requested maximum.

Benchmark Results: The AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition was 25.473 seconds behind the Intel Core i5 2500K during the 1024 Million benchmark and .892 seconds behind in the 32 Million test.