Phenom x4 Agena 9600: Sandra XII Bench

gurusan · 11 Nov 2007 at 16:08

http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=423034

thats an insanely low vcore...I wonder if these can clock to 3.6-4ghz with some more voltage?

Pictures of AMD Phenom 9600 processor and CPU-Z screen shot. The name of the CPU is Phenom X4 with codename Agena. It is rated 65nm at a core voltage of 0.976v. The processor is labelled Phenom 9600 clocked at 2.3GHz. The CPU is installed on a NF560 chipset mainboard, that is the reason you see the HT is set to 1GHz. It has 512K L2 cache and 2M L3 cache.

So how does it fare when compared with Intel QX series of processors. Read on and you will find out with the preliminary result.

Multimedia
Using Sandra XII Processor Multi-media test, we can see that in processor Multi-media, the results of the 9600 is definitely no match for the high end QX6800 and QX6700. Phenom 9600 scores 87564iit/s in Int X4 test and 115225 fit/s in x4 iSSE2. Of course, when compared to the Core 2 Duo, this processor is definitely much better in multimedia cruching.

Arithemetic

In Processor Arithemetic, we can see that both the QX6700 and QX6800 leads the race. The Phenom X4 scored 35235/29630 in Drystone ALU and Whetstone iSSE3. This score is better than the Athlon X2 6400+ processor.

jigger · 11 Nov 2007 at 16:12

Nice find, 0.9volts at 2.3ghz :eek:

Bleek · 11 Nov 2007 at 16:21

Jesus, those volts rock! lol

Good numbers for such a low clock, wonder what that pumps out at 3GHz plus? Looking good.

JediFragger · 11 Nov 2007 at 16:36

Looks like these babies will be very interesting at 3ghz+ :cool:

jaykay · 11 Nov 2007 at 16:50

Cool, upgrade time after Christmas

lsg1r · 11 Nov 2007 at 17:06

anyone got the same benchies on a q6600 as thats the same clock etc to get a better feel

Have to say those benchmarks don't look all that good to me but maybe I'm reading them wrong. However voltage is nice.

gurusan · 11 Nov 2007 at 17:09

they don't look amazing, no. But look, it's running at a 1ghz HT and on only 1gb ram.

jigger · 11 Nov 2007 at 17:21

lsg1r said:
anyone got the same benchies on a q6600 as thats the same clock etc to get a better feel

Have to say those benchmarks don't look all that good to me but maybe I'm reading them wrong. However voltage is nice.

When you consider what it give's away to the others it's doing ******* well i think.

lsg1r · 11 Nov 2007 at 19:52

gurusan said:
they don't look amazing, no. But look, it's running at a 1ghz HT and on only 1gb ram.

But how much of an impact would the 1ghz ht really have.

gareth170 · 11 Nov 2007 at 20:33

am2 is 2000 HT, am2+ is 4000 HT but i don't think it'll be much of increase performance.

Talrinys · 11 Nov 2007 at 21:59

I wanna see some 3ghz benchmarks with Phenom vs C2D at that clockrate, preferrably with RAM at same frequency

But no matter what this is good news, AMD is back up there with performance, will get beat by Penryn again but that doesn't matter as it's not loads better clock for clock.
That voltage there is incredible, can't wait to see what kind of speeds that'll allow

Aurhinius · 12 Nov 2007 at 08:01

it's only running at 2.3 so it is hard to extrapolate where it would sit at 3ghz, can it even do 3.4 a Q6600 will do 3.4 so AMD need to match that performance at same or lower volts.

lsg1r · 12 Nov 2007 at 11:56

Aurhinius said:
it's only running at 2.3 so it is hard to extrapolate where it would sit at 3ghz, can it even do 3.4 a Q6600 will do 3.4 so AMD need to match that performance at same or lower volts.

yeah but overclockers aren't the main target, the main target is stock versus stock. Overclockers are still a small percentage.

gareth170 · 12 Nov 2007 at 12:42

not everybody wanna overclock. so it going by stock . as said above.. AMD needs to match or beat intel 4 core cpus at stock speed..

Emlyn_Dewar · 12 Nov 2007 at 12:59

Would be better if there was a Q6600 up there to compare with just so it'd be a little more relevant, I don't think the results look too bag tbh, look forward to seeing these available and the prices/overclocks.

Columbo · 12 Nov 2007 at 13:06

Looks promising, be nice if AMD can back to the level of performance we'd come to expect a few years ago.

JediFragger · 12 Nov 2007 at 18:26

Personally I'm itching to try one to gauge how 'good' it is in general operations - Quad+Onboard mem controller+L3 cache+HT3 etc etc

Gotta be able to hit 3Ghz+ though for me...

Jokester · 12 Nov 2007 at 18:32

JediFragger said:
Personally I'm itching to try one to gauge how 'good' it is in general operations - Quad+Onboard mem controller+L3 cache+HT3 etc etc

Gotta be able to hit 3Ghz+ though for me...

I suspect if they could hit 3GHz they would be selling some at 3GHz, it doesn't make commercial sense to sell their processors at £200-£250 if they could sell some of them at upto £700 if they were able to compete with Intel in terms of performance.

Jokester

simonnance · 12 Nov 2007 at 18:37

TDP considerations might be limiting them? Nothing a decent CPU cooler cant handle if thats the case.

JediFragger · 12 Nov 2007 at 18:46

Jokester said:
I suspect if they could hit 3GHz they would be selling some at 3GHz

Agreed, doesn't seem like they will be able to hit it. Will wait til they can & we get a golden-stepping