Application Performance

Although the Phenom II X4 965 struggled in our synthetic tests, the outset real-world examination that nosotros threw at information technology went very well. Using a complex spreadsheet that we created (not supplied by Intel or AMD) the Phenom 2 X4 965 completed the large adding in xi:10 minutes. The Cadre i7 920 took xiii:04 minutes, making information technology over a infinitesimal slower. At that place was very little difference in operation when comparison Intel CPUs to one another.

This fourth dimension using WinRAR we simulate our own test past compressing two different archives. The showtime is the Windows vii installer, which contains over 800 files and totals 3GB in size, and the second is a huge individual 12GB media file. Each test is run iii times and we record the boilerplate result.

The Core i7 920 had a clear advantage over the dual-channel LGA1156 processors in this test, as it was ix% faster than the Core i7 860 and 10% faster than the Core i5 750. Interestingly, Hyper-Threading support on the Core i7 860 counted for very little here, equally the bit was just a fraction faster than the slower clocked Core i5 750.

Finally we fired up Adobe Photoshop CS4, opened a 13MB (7000x6000) JPEG image file and proceeded to employ two filters, measuring the time each of them took. The extrude filter took each processor roughly 66 seconds, with the Core i7 920 delivering a marginally amend effect with a time of 65.5 seconds.

The Phenom II X4 965 was faster when applying the blur filter, taking just 41.two seconds, followed past the Cadre i7 920 at 46.9 seconds.