AMD have once again gone with the new AM3 series socket type for their processors, with the upcoming DDR3 onboard chip controller in the CPU people can just wait for the improved latency and bandwidth potential of DDR3 with double the prize margin. Giving that AMD is still struggling with their own flagship processors going up with Intel’s quad extreme edition and even mainstream dual cores like E8500 benefiting in a higher clock rate in over 3.0GHz it gave higher scored and more in the mainstream performance and the prize.
Going with the new Phenom II processor the flagship 920 black editions, the representative for the dragon series from AMD with the inclusion of any 790 series motherboard and also ATi’s HD4000 graphics; with the former Spider series going to be a second cheaper option for AMD fans, but now AMD can now see the Phenom II in the flesh, with a higher core clock frequency than the previous Phenom, only reaching 2.6 at the most, but now going as far as 3.0GHz with the 940. Going with the help of the much better 45nm fabrication process, plus the increase of the memory size of the cache and a larger shared cache memory with individual Level one and level two and the level three caches shared in the four cores. Also having to introduce new instructions in the SSEa4, with going prediction instructions and a larger store of memory and also the improved buffer in both floatation points and the Path-based indirect branch prediction; giving it at least 85-to 100 percent performance increase in multimedia and core calculations. But whose going to say in the figures you have to see it for your yourselves, so we did that for you and saw a huge increase in some gaming performance more noticeably the higher core clock speed help it with pumping the graphics card more instructions to play the game much more smoothly.
Just only the multimedia and multithreading performance were a bit mixed, with the Sisoftsandra showing that highs of the 920 in the memory bandwidth of a DDR2 but going down in the Java test with not going better than a Q6600. But still flying forward from its AMD competition; going over all with the 920 BE, is going great with improvements in the steps and the memory stepping of the new Phenom II chips, plus the added benefit of having already pre-high clocked frequency and the ability to go as low as 800Mhz when in idle making the power consumption of the 920 just 0.85W, much better placed than the Intel counterpart. Prize also go much better just going a few dollars difference come better than expected for AMD.
