AMD 5000+ Black Edition AM2 X2 Processor Review

Testing:

We'll start with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:

• Resolution: 2750x2048
• Quality: 500
• Limit Memory use: 512MB

The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.

Lower is Better

We can see that the extra L2 cache helps the 6000+ finish the render over three minutes faster than the 5000+ BE clocked at 3.0GHz and almost a full minute quicker even with the 5000+ clocked at 3.2GHz.

WinRAR is a tool to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. We will use 10MB, 100MB and 500MB files and test the time needed to compress these files. Time will be measured in seconds.

The 5000+ BE just powers through the compression testing when overclocked.