AMD Phenom X4 9150e & 9350e Review --- TheThirdMedia Hardware

Results - SPEC CPU2000 v1.3

As usual, we'll set the basics straight by checking out how the new Phenom X4 9350e and 9150e processors fair in their integer and floating-point performance with SPEC CPU2000. The first pair of results is from the speed tests, which predominantly scale with clock speed, but we've long established in our original Phenom X4 review that the CPU architecture also plays a part where the AMD contingent took back seat in the tests. With even lower clocked processors of these new energy-efficient AMD processors, the results are worse still. The Core architecture combined with the high clock speeds of the equivalently priced Core 2 Duo series make their presence felt here.

Moving to SPEC CPU's rate tests that simulate running multiple copies of the workload the outcome is better, but not by much. We encountered errors in obtaining some of the four-user results, but even if you put that aside and compare with the results obtained, the fact doesn't change that the Core 2 Duo processors' dual-user results almost rival those of the new Phenom X4's quad-user results in the integer workload and gets an upper hand in the floating-point workloads, it's the same scenario we're seeing all over again when we first compared the higher-end Phenom processors.



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