How we test
Hardware
| CPU |
Phenom
II X6 1100T BE |
Phenom
II X6 1090T |
Phenom II X6
1075T |
Phenom
II
X6 1055 |
Phenom II
X4 970 BE |
Athlon II
X4 635 |
Core i7
980X EE |
Core i7
950 |
Core i7 930 |
Core i7 870 |
Core i5
760 |
Core
i5
661 |
| Price |
£199 |
£184 |
£157 |
£149/135 |
£146 |
£70 |
£727 |
£232 |
£211 |
£222 |
£140 |
£161 |
| Frequency |
3.30GHz
|
3.20GHz
|
3.00GHz
|
2.80GHz
|
3.40GHz
|
2.90GHz
|
3.33GHz
|
3.06GHz
|
2.80GHz
|
2.93GHz
|
2.66GHz
|
3.33GHz
|
| Max turbo frequency |
3.70GHz |
3.60GHz |
3.50GHz |
3.30GHz |
N/A |
N/A |
3.60GHz |
3.33GHz |
3.06GHz |
3.60GHz |
3.20GHz |
3.60GHz |
| Cache |
3MB
L2
6MB L3 |
3MB
L2
6MB L3 |
3MB
L2
6MB L3 |
3MB
L2
6MB L3 |
2MB
L2
6MB L3 |
2MB
L2 |
1.5MB
L2, 12MB L3 |
1MB
L2
8MB L3 |
1MB
L2
8MB L3 |
1MB
L2
8MB L3 |
1MB
L2
8MB L3 |
0.5MB
L2
4MB L3 |
| Cores/threads |
6/6 |
6/6 |
6/6 |
6/6 |
4/4 |
4/4 |
6/12 |
6/12 |
4/8 |
4/8 |
4/4 |
2/4 |
| Process |
45nm |
45nm |
45nm |
45nm |
45nm |
45nm |
32nm |
32nm |
45nm |
45nm |
45nm |
32nm |
| Form factor |
AM3 |
AM3 |
AM3 |
AM3 |
AM3 |
AM3 |
LGA1366 |
LGA1366 |
LGA1366 |
LGA1156 |
LGA1156 |
LGA1156 |
| TDP |
125W |
125W |
125W |
95W |
125W |
95W |
130W |
130W |
130W |
95W |
95W |
87W |
| Motherboard |
ASUS Crosshair IV
Formula
(890FX) |
ASUS
P6X58D Premium
(X58)
|
Gigabyte H55M-UD2H
(H55) |
| BIOS revision |
0905 (22/06/10) |
0808
(09/04/2010)
|
F7 (12/02/2010) |
| Memory |
4GB
(2 x 2GB) Corsair DDR3-1,600 |
6GB
(3 x 2GB) Corsair
DDR3-1,600 |
4GB (2 x 2GB) Corsair
DDR3-1,600 |
| Memory timings and speed |
9-9-9-24-1T
@ DDR3-1,600 |
9-9-9-24
1T
@ DDR3
1,600 |
9-9-9-24 2T @ DDR3
1,333 |
| Graphics card |
Sapphire Radeon HD
5850 1,024MB |
| Graphics driver |
Catalyst 10.10 |
| Disk drive |
Corsair Nova V128
120GB |
| Operating system |
Windows 7 Ultimate
(64-bit) |
| PSU |
Corsair HX1000W |
Software
| Benchmarks |
HEXUS.PiFast to 10m places
CINEBENCH R11.5 multi-CPU, 64-bit
POV-ray 3.7.0 beta 35a
wPrime v2.03
x264 HD v3.0 media-encoding benchmark - second pass noted
7zip v4.65 built-in
file-compression benchmark
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 1,680x1,050 - 4xAA, max
quality
Power-consumption
tests - idle and 2D load (wPrime load)
Overclocking tests - 1100T only
|
Testing notes
12 chips - six from AMD and
six from Intel. Stop reading this and head on over to the benchmarks on
the following pages!
