AMD Phenom X4 9750 Quad Core CPU Review

Cinebench R10

Another benchmarking community favorite, Cinebench renders an intense 2D scene relying on all the processing power it can. Cinebench R10 is likely the most efficient program tested today at utilizing all cores of a processor. We will be running both the single threaded and multi-threaded benches here today.


The Intel Core 2 Duo architecture is a very refined and mature line and its superb performance reflects this fact as it easily trumps the new K10 AMD quad core in both single and multi-threaded rendering. In time as AMD enhances the Phenom core this may change; but as things stand right now AMD needs to work on improve its efficiency of the individual cores and their ability to interact with each other.

LAME MT

Lame MT was developed to be a multi-threaded version of the venerable LAME audio encoder to show off the power of Intel’s HTT (Hyper Threading Technology). Of course, it shows off the power of multi-cores processors even better! Unfortunately, it really is only capable of using 2 cores thus making it like many modern programs that can’t really take full advantage of a quad core CPU. Even with this limitation it still does show the real world performance of a given CPU and how they relate to other CPUs. For this benchmark a 100MB .WAV file was converted into an .MP3. The full command line was as follows "lame -q 0 -V 1 test.wav test.mp3".


While 26 seconds is not exactly terrible….for 2005. Of course that is a HUGE exaggeration but by today’s standards the Phenom’s audio conversion performance is just…well LAME! Once again you do have to take it with a big grain of salt as the Phenoms are a brand new architecture and in time they will mature to the point where they will be true contenders.