Cinebench R11.5
MAXON; R11.5 CINEBENCH:
MAXON lançou recentemente Lançamento CINEBENCH 11,5, uma suíte de testes avançados de hardware que avalia as capacidades de um computador de desempenho. CINEBENCH é baseado na mesma tecnologia poderosa como o premiado software de animação MAXON CINEMA 4D, que é amplamente utilizado pelos estúdios e casas de produção em todo o mundo para criação de conteúdo 3D. A nova versão do CINEBENCH inclui a capacidade de forma mais precisa testar hardware mais recente da indústria, incluindo sistemas com até 64 threads processador, eo melhor ambiente de teste reflete as expectativas de demanda de produção de hoje. Uma interface mais simples faz com que os sistemas de teste e os resultados de leitura incrivelmente simples. Mais uma vez, Quadros superiores / Second e ponto de pontuação de desempenho igual melhor.
Cinebench R11.5 foi capaz de colocar uma carga de 100% em todos os núcleos em todos os processadores, o que torna esta uma referência grande olhar multi-core plataformas.
CyberLink MediaEspresso 6,5
CyberLink MediaEspresso 6,5 incrivelmente rápido conversor de mídia universal que pode transcodificar seus vídeos, fotos e arquivos de música e colocá-los para fora uma enorme gama de dispositivos portáteis, incluindo telefones celulares, players portáteis de mídia e até mesmo consolas de jogos. Com tecnologias como o Smart Detect, Sync direto e melhorias CyberLink TrueTheater de vídeo, você não pode apenas esquecer configurações complicadas resolução, formato e de saída, mas o seu arquivo convertido vai sair do outro lado olhando melhor do que quando entrou! MediaEspresso 6.5 pode ser usado para a saída de seu slideshows e vídeos para dispositivos móveis como o iPhone, iPod, PSP ou Zune. Pré-definidos perfis de eliminar a necessidade de qualquer configuração complexa e você pode simplesmente arrastar e soltar os arquivos de vídeo que deseja converter em linha reta no aplicativo.
Baixamos um clipe que foi codificado a 24 frames por segundo (fps) com uma resolução de 1920 x 1080 (1080p). Em seguida, usamos MediaEspresso 6,5 para converter este clipe para trabalhar no nosso iPhone. Se você tem este software e quiser experimentá-lo sozinho você pode baixar o Coral Reef Adventure (IMAX) clipe de 1080p que usamos a partir deste site .
x264 HD Encoding
Simplificando, é uma medida reprodutível de quão rápido a sua máquina pode codificar um vídeo curto com qualidade HD em um arquivo de vídeo de alta qualidade x264. É bom porque todo mundo correndo ele vai usar o vídeo mesmo e software. O codificador de vídeo (x264.exe) relata uma referência bastante precisa interna (em quadros por segundo) para cada passagem do vídeo codificar e ele também usa processadores multi-core de forma muito eficiente.Todos esses fatores tornam este um ponto de referência ideal para comparar diferentes processadores e sistemas para o outro. Estamos usando x264 HD v4.0 para este teste.
Esta aplicação foi muito bem quando executado em quatro tópicos, como você pode ver na captura de tela acima. A primeira passagem não estava usando todo o poder de processamento disponíveis nos quatro núcleos, mas na segunda passagem todos os 4 threads estavam em ~ 98% de carga.
Resultados de referência: A referência x264 HD é muito intensivo de CPU e ele mostrou que a AMD FX-4100 foi capaz de transformar em escores de 96 FPS na primeira passagem e 19 FPS na segunda passagem. Estes são pontuações respeitável para um processador quad-core, mas são mais lentos do que a AMD A8-3850 processador Llano! Chocante desde a AMD A8-3850 tem um clock base de 700MHz mais lento!
Handbrake
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It is popular today as it allows you to transcode multiple input video formats to h.264 output format and is highly multithreaded.
This workload is a 43-second HDV. The input file is encoded in Mpeg format. Video encode parameters are 23.9mbps, 1440*1080, 29.9fps. Audio encode parameters are 384 kbps, 48kHz, 2channel, mpeg audio version 1 layer 2. File size is 128MB. The workload is encoded into h.264 output format using the preset - high profile. HandBrake version 0.9.5 was used for benchmarking.
The Test System
Before we look at the numbers, here is a brief glance at the test system that was used. All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. All benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running. An AMD Radeon HD 6950 graphics card was run on each system with Catalyst 11.10 Preview drivers.
AMD AM3+ Platform
The AMD AM3+ platform that we used to test the AMD Phenom and FX processors were run on the ASUS Crosshair V Formula motherboard with BIOS 9901 that came out on 9/26/2011. The Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1866MHz memory kit was set to 1866MHz with 1.5v and 9-10-9-28 1T memory timings on the AMD FX-8150 and then at 1600MHz with 1.5v and 9-10-9-28 1T memory timings on the Phenom II X4 and Phenom II X6 processors.
Intel Z68 Platform
The Intel Z68 platform that we used to test the Intel 1155 processors was running the Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard with BIOS F10 that came out on 10/12/2011. The Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1866MHz memory kit was set to 1866MHz with 1.5v and 9-10-9-28 1T memory timings.
The AMD FM1 'Llano' Test System:
The test system was run in dual-channel memory mode at 1866MHz with 9-10-9-28 1T memory timings. The Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H motherboard was running BIOS F3, which was the latest build available when testing was completed. You can see all of the CPU-Z and GPU-Z information for this test platform below.
The integrated graphics comes up as Radeon HD 6530D according to GPU-Z and we used AMD CATALYST 11.6 drivers was used for testing.
| AMD Test Platform | |||||
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Component | Brand/Model | Live Pricing | |||
Processor | A8-3850 / A6-3650 | ||||
Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H | Click Here | |||
Memory | 8GB GSKILL Ripjaws 1866 | Click Here | |||
Video Card | AMD Radeon HD 6950 | Click Here | |||
Hard Drive | Crucial C300 256GB SSD | Click Here | |||
Cooling | AMD Retail Boxed | Click Here | |||
Power Supply | Corsair HX850W | Click Here | |||
Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit | Click Here | |||
Next Page - AMD FX-4100 Turbo Core Details and CPU-Z
The AMD FX-4100 CPU
When AMD launched FX-Zambezi series of Bulldozer processors last month they seeded our samples of their flagship FX-8150 processors for the launch articles. Legit Reviews got one of those processors and completed an in-depth review of that CPU on the day it launched. Our readers were clearly disappointed with the performance results and we don't blame them. AMD hyped up this processor for years and just a month before it launched they announced that it had made it into the Guinness World Record books by overclocking to a higher clock frequency than ever before. This was all fine and dandy, but for daily use it doesn't mean squat. Since we've already looked at the flagship AMD FX-8150 8-core processor and had disappointing results we thought we'd look at the entry level AMD FX processor, the FX-4100.
The AMD FX-4100 is a quad-core processor is basically a FX-8150 with 4-cores disabled. This obviously means that the chip has half of the L2 cache (4MB) enabled and a lower TDP (95W). The AMD FX-4100 even has the same 3.6 GHz base clock speed as the FX-8150, but differs slightly in Turbo mode as it is clocked lower. Turbo mode on the FX-4100 runs at just 3.7 (4 cores at load) or 3.8 GHz (2 cores at load), so it doesn't scale as high as the FX-8150.
The best part about the FX-4100 is without a doubt the price. The FX-4100 has a street price of $109.99 shipped, which is far less expensive than the FX-8150 that will set you back $269.99 shipped. Could the FX-4100 processor be the value play for the AMD desktop market? That is what we set to find out and we'll be comparing it against processors like the Intel Core i3-2120 quad-core 3.3GHz CPU that runs $127.01 shipped to see how this budget processors compare.
The AMD FX-4100 will work only on AMD AM3+ ready motherboards, but the good news is that sites like Newegg have 46 AMD AM3+ boards to pick from with prices ranging from $54.99 to $239.99. This means that you can easily get a motherboard, 8GB DDR3 memory and the FX-4100 processor for far less than just the FX-8150!
The AMD FX-4100 processor that we picked up has part number FD4100WMW4KGU laser etched on the top of the heat spreader and was made in week 38 of 2011. If the processor has part number FD4100WMW4KGU it is an OEM/tray processor and if it has FD4100WMGUSBX on it that means it is a retail boxed processor.
Since this processor release is just a speed bump let's jump straight into benchmarking!
SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP5
The Sisoft Sandra 2011 SP5 benchmark utility just came out a few weeks ago and we have started to include it in our benchmarking. Sandra 2011 comes with support for Virtualisation (Virtual PC/Server, Hyper-V, VMware) and GPGPU (OpenCL, DirectX 11 DirectCompute), but today we will be using the program to look at memory and CPU performance!
The Sandra Processor Multi-Media benchmark has been a long time favorite of ours to look at floating point performance on processors.
Cryptography has become an important part of our digital life: it allows us to conduct safe transactions online, certify programs and services, keep our data secure and much more. Sandra 2010c has a dedicated benchmark built-in that measures cryptographic performance, which is important on the new Intel 32nm processors like the Core i7 980X. It includes features like AES-NI! Intel AES-NI is a new set of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions that are going to be introduced in the next generation of Intel processors, as of 2009. These instructions enable fast and secure data encryption and decryption, using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), defined by FIPS Publication number 197. The architecture introduces six instructions that offer full hardware support for AES. Four of them support high performance data encryption and decryption, and the other two instructions support the AES key expansion procedure. Let's take a look at how this feature impacts Cryptography performance.
POV-Ray 3.7 RC3
Processor Performance on Pov-Ray 3.7 RC3:The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer was developed from DKBTrace 2.12 (written by David K. Buck and Aaron A. Collins) by a bunch of people (called the POV-Team) in their spare time. It is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package. These scenes can be modified so you do not have to start from scratch. In addition to the pre-defined scenes, a large library of pre-defined shapes and materials is provided. You can include these shapes and materials in your own scenes by just including the library file name at the top of your scene file and by using the shape or material name in your scene. Since this is free software feel free to download this version and try it out on your own.
The most significant change from the end-user point of view between versions 3.6 and 3.7 is the addition of SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) support, which, in a nutshell, allows the renderer to run on as many CPU's as you have installed on your computer. This will be particularly useful for those users who intend on purchasing a dual-core CPU or who already have a two (or more) processor machine. On a two-CPU system the rendering speed in some scenes almost doubles. For our benchmarking we used version 3.7 RC3, which is the most recent version available. The benchmark used all available cores to complete the render.
Once rendering on the object we selected was completed, we took the elapsed time from the dialog box, which indicates the exact time it took for the benchmark to finish the benchmark. A lower time indicates faster system performance.
PCMark 7
This is our first use of Futuremark PCMark 7 for a processor review. PCMark 7 which is specifically designed for Windows 7. It measures the performance of the latest PC hardware across a variety of common scenarios.
PCMark Vantage 7 supports both system level and component level benchmarking and comprises several different test suites but for the purposes of this review, we employed the standard test suite. The nice thing about it is that you can submit your scores online and compare against others.
AMD FX-4100 Detailed Benchmark Results:
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Detailed Benchmark Results:
AMD FX-8150 Detailed Benchmark Results:
From the looks of things the main difference between the FX-8150 and the 1100T is the data decrypting test suite.
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.
The Performance settings were used for testing, so a resolution of 1280x1024 was used.
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5 is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom. Resident Evil 5 features similar gameplay to Resident Evil 4, with context-sensitive controls and dynamic cut scenes also making a return. The player can control Chris Redfield or Sheva Alomar in a similar fashion to Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 4, with the same over-the-shoulder perspective.
We ran the Resident Evil 5 benchmark in DX10 mode with all the image quality settings turned down, which just happens to be the default settings of the game.
This game title runs on up to four threads as you can see from the task manager shot above that was taken on a test system that was running the Intel Core i7-2820QM processor.
H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Aerial warfare has evolved. So have you. As a member of the ultra-secret H.A.W.X. 2 squadron, you are one of the chosen few, one of the truly elite. You will use finely honed reflexes, bleeding-edge technology and ultra-sophisticated aircraft - their existence denied by many governments - to dominate the skies. You will do so by mastering every nuance of the world's finest combat aircraft. You will slip into enemy territory undetected, deliver a crippling blow and escape before he can summon a response. You will use your superior technology to decimate the enemy from afar, then draw him in close for a pulse-pounding dogfight. And you will use your steel nerve to successfully execute night raids, aerial refueling and more. You will do all this with professionalism, skill and consummate lethality. Because you are a member of H.A.W.X. 2 and you are one of the finest military aviators the world has ever known. H.A.W.X. 2 was released on November 16, 2010 for PC gamers.
We ran the benchmark in DX11 mode with the image quality settings set fairly high as you would on a high-end gaming PC with a Radeon HD 6950 graphics card.
The H.A.W.X. 2 PC game title runs on what looks like five threads if the processor being tested has that many available.
Benchmark Results: The AMD FX-4100 had no problems running H.A.W.X. 2 despite the fact that it came in last in our performance testing. At 1024x768 the AMD FX-8150 was able to average 145 frames per second and the FX-4100 was 20% or 29FPS slower than that. Once we increased the resolution to 1920x1080 we saw a smaller 7% difference between the two Bulldozer processors in this gaming benchmark.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.
The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX10" as our renderer. Under the advanced settings we disabled tessellation, MSAA and ambient occlusion.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat looks to only be threaded for one CPU core as you can see from the Windows Task Manager screen capture that was done during a benchmark run.
Benchmark Results: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat doesn't exactly scale well across multiple cores. The AMD FX-4100 and FX-8150 performed nearly identically on this benchmark.
Total System Power Consumption
Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with identical power supplies, Solid-Sate Drives, Memory kits and motherboards from the same company. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, Prime95's in-place large FFT's were run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. Curious about other test scenarios, we decided to HAWX 2 the PC game for testing. We also tested a video transcode using HandBrake 0.95 to see how the power draw on that was.
Final Thoughts and Conclusions
The AMD FX-4100 was found to be a very interesting processor after we sat down and spent a couple weeks with it on the test bench. At first glance it looks like a great deal as it can be purchased for just $109.99 shipped. That makes is far less expensive than the AMD FX-8150 ($279.99) and even slightly cheaper than the AMD A8-3850 ($134.99) and A6-3650 ($119.99). From a price perspective the AMD FX-4100 is indisputably the lowest cost Bulldozer on the market today. So, it's clearly a winner when it comes to pricing.
When it comes to performance we were shocked to see the AMD A8-3850 'Llano' processor and the Socket FM1 platform performing better than the AMD FX-4100 'Bulldozer' processor and the Socket AM3+ platform. We quickly found out that the FX-4100 was priced this low as it needed to be. The performance of the FX-4100 wasn't awful, but we didn't expect to see the AMD A6-3650 running at 2.6GHz to beat the AMD FX-4100 running at 3.6GHz in benchmarks like POV-Ray and Cinebench!
The AMD FX-4100 did do well when it came to overclocking and it might be the easiest processor to overclock that we have used in the past ten years. We were able to get a 1GHz overclock out of the processor by just raising the multiplier in the BIOS of the ASUS Crosshair V Formula motherboard. We didn't even have to touch any voltages to reach this overclock. That is mighty impressive and just goes to show how easy it is to overclock today. The massive 1GHz overclock helps boost the performance of this processor to more respectable levels and is the saving grace of this processor. If it wasn't this overclockable, we wouldn't suggest it at all.
In stock form the AMD FX-4100 isn't that impressive in the benchmarks, but it does offer a value play to those that aren't afraid of overclocking. If you are on a strict budget you can get an FX-4100 for $110 shipped, an AMD socket AM3+ board for $60 shipped and 8GB of Corsair DDR3 1333MHz memory for $32 shipped after rebate. This means iyou can spend right around $200 and get a new motherboard, processor and memory kit. and that is great for those with 3+ year old systems that are in need of an update. We wouldn't waste your money on a faster 1866MHz memory kit with this CPU as we were hitting 10.4 GB/s with 1333MHz memory and 11.1 GB/s with 1866MHz on Sandra 2011 SP5 for memory bandwidth. The FX-4100 doesn't scale that well with memory speed.
Legit Bottom Line: The AMD FX-4100 didn't top the charts when it comes to CPU performance, but the low price and solid overclocking results make it a decent chip for those looking for a budget system build.
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