AMD Phenom X4 9750 Quad Core CPU Review

WinRAR

The popular compression program winRAR includes an internal benchmark program that measures the performance of its decompression and compression algorithms. It does this by using an intensive worst-case scenario set of data. This benchmark is great for comparing processors of different size, speed and even cache sizes as it does not scale linearly with number of transistors or cache that a given chip has. WinRAR 3.8 beta 3 was used and it was allowed to run for 5 minutes before results were recorded.


Ouch. As is becoming a reoccurring theme the Phenom and AMD processors are just being left in Intel’s dust. Even taking the q9450 out of the picture 1616 vs 1222 is a down right monstrously huge performance gap. One can only hope that AMDs upcoming die shrink will include a processor efficiency tune up.

7 ZIP

As with WinRAR 7-ZIP comes with a n internal benchmark program that measures the performance of its decompression and compression algorithms. All settings were left at default except for number of passes which was set to run for 8 full passes. Only after 8 passes were the results recorded.


Just when things were starting to look bleak for AMD 7-Zip comes to the rescue; or at least partially to the rescue. The 9750 Phenom’s decompression ability manages to beat the q6600. In time its lagging compression score will also come improve in a revision or three!