AMD Phenom II X4 955 AM3 CPU Review

Testing:

SiSoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra allows you to view your hardware at a higher level to be more helpful. For this benchmark, I will be running a broad spectrum of tests to gauge the performance of key functions of the CPUs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Processor Arithmetic

 

Multi-Core Efficiency

 

Memory Bandwidth

 

Memory Latency

 

Cache and Memory

 

File System

 

Physical Disks

 

Power Management Efficiency

 

The Phenom II 955, for the most part, scored better then the Phenom II 940 - with the highlights being the memory bandwidth delivered, the memory latency and the power management efficiency. However, it scored far behind the Intel Core i7 processor in many of the benchmarks.