AMD Phenom II X4 955 AM3 CPU Review

Testing:

ScienceMark tests real world performance instead of using synthetic benchmarks. For this test, we ran the benchmark suite and will use the overall score for comparison.

Higher is Better!

CineBench is useful for testing your system, CPU and OpenGL capabilities using the software program CINEMA 4D. We will be using the default tests for this benchmark.

Higher is Better

HD Tune measures disk performance to make comparisons between drives or disk controllers.

Higher is Better

Lower is Better

In ScienceMark, the Phenom II 955 scored the best among the other processors, due in part to the increase clock speed. For CineBench and HD Tune, the Phenom II  955 scores better than the Phenom II 940, and worse than the Core i7 920.