AMD Athlon II X2 255, X3 440, X4 635, Phenom II X2 555, and X4 910e Review

Testing:

The first part of our testing will be the system specific benchmarks.

Let's get started 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

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

ZIP:

Lower is Better

RAR:

Lower is Better

In Apophysis, the new generation of processors were an improvement over the previous generation. For WinRAR, the higher core processors did better then the lower core ones, no matter how high the clock speed was.