AMD Phenom X3 8750 Tri-Core Processor

Name: AMD Phenom X3 8750 Tri-Core Processor - Page 3
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT

How We Configured Our Test Systems: When configuring our test systems for this article, we first entered their respective system BIOSes and set each board to its "Optimized" or "High performance Defaults". We then saved the settings, re-entered the BIOS and set memory timings for either DDR2-1066 (AMD) with 5,5,5,15 timings or DDR3-1333 with 7,7,7,20 timings (Intel). The hard drives were then formatted, and Windows Vista Ultimate was installed. When the Windows installation was complete, we updated the OS, and installed the drivers necessary for our components. Auto-Updating and Windows Defender were then disabled and we installed all of our benchmarking software, defragged the hard drives, and ran all of the tests.

HotHardware's Test Systems

Intel and AMD - Head To Head

System 1:
Core 2 Extreme QX9650
(3.0GHz - Quad-Core)
Core 2 Quad Q6600
(2.40GHz - Quad-Core)
Core 2 Duo E6850
(3.0GHz - Dual-Core)
Core 2 Duo E6600
(2.40GHz - Dual-Core)

Asus P5E3 Premium
(X48 Chipset)

2x1GB Corsair DDR3-1800
CL 7-7-7-20 - DDR3-1333

GeForce 8800 GTX
On-Board Ethernet
On-board Audio

WD740 "Raptor" HD
10,000 RPM SATA

Windows Vista Ultimate
NVIDIA Forceware v163.75
DirectX Redist (November 2007)

System 2:
AMD Phenom X3 8750
(2.4GHz)
AMD Phenom X4 9850
(2.5GHz)
AMD Phenom 9600
(2.3GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3200+
(3.2GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
(2.4GHz)

Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6
(AMD 790FX Chipset)

2x1GB Corsair PC2-8500
CL 5-5-5-15 - DDR2-1066

GeForce 8800 GTX
On-Board Ethernet
On-board Audio

WD740 "Raptor" HD
10,000 RPM SATA

Windows Vista Ultimate
NVIDIA Forceware v163.75
DirectX Redist (November 2007)

Preliminary Testing with SiSoft SANDRA XII SP2a

Synthetic Benchmarks

We began our testing with SiSoftware's SANDRA XII, the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. We ran six of the built-in subsystem tests that partially comprise the SANDRA XII suite with AMD's new Phenom X2 8750 processor (CPU Arithmetic, Multimedia, Multi-Core Efficiency, Memory Bandwidth, Cache and Memory Bandwidth and Memory Latency). All of the scores reported below were taken with the processors running at its default clock speed of 2.4GHz, with 2GB of DDR2-1066 RAM running in 128-bit unganged mode.

*Processor Arithmetic*	*Multimedia*	*Multi-Core Efficiency*
*Memory Bandwidth*	*Cache and Memory*	*Memory Latency*

SiSoft SANDRA's various benchmark modules reported scores right in-line with logical expectations. The tri-core chip was more powerful than AMD's dual-core offerings, but note quite as powerful as a quad-core. The multi-core efficiency and various memory related tests all reported similar scores to quad-core Phenom X4 processors, which is to be expected considering they are the essentially identical.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com