To test the Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition, I will compare it to the Phenom II of the same frequency, the X3 720. Unfortunately I did not have any processor of a similar price and performance to compare with, be it Intel or AMD.
As for the benchmarks, there will be a set of system benches and another set of gaming benches. Fraps will be used to record the FPS in Mirror's Edge, Bioshock and Call of Duty: World at War whereas for all other gaming tests, the built-in benchmarking tool will be used. All of these will be ran at 3 different resolutions except Call of Juarez, Lost Planet and World in Conflict where the minimum settings will be used to prevent bottleneck from the graphics card.
Test Setup:
- AMD Athlon Kuma X2 7850 Black Edition processor
- Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H AM2+ motherboard
- NVIDIA GTX 260 videocard with Forceware 182.06
- Seagate 7200.11 with 32MB cache SATA2 drive
- Mushkin XP-800AP power Supply
- 2x2GB Mushkin DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15
Benchmarks:
- SiSoft Sandra Professional
- WinRAR
- PCMark Vantage
- TMPG rendering program
- POV-Ray
- Cinebench
- Call of Juarez
- World in Conflict
- Lost Planet
- Far Cry 2
- Bioshock
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Crysis Warhead
- Left 4 Dead
- Mirror's Edge
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