EVEREST Benchmark Tests

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC.

As one might expect, there isn't much difference between the Phenom II X4 965 and the 955 when it comes to memory bandwidth. Both have the same memory controller and are using the same DDR3 modules. The higher clock speed of the X4 965 only slightly tips these benchmarks in its favor.

Moving on to the CPU integer tests, things get a little more interesting. Compared to the X4 955, the X4 965's extra 200 MHz equates to roughly a 6% increase in the Queen and AES benchmarks, and a 3.5% increase in the PhotoWorxx benchmark.

The same increase in performance can be seen in the floating point tests. Here, the X4 965 has a clear 6% lead over the 955 across the board. As we've seen in past reviews, however, the Intel chips perform slightly better in the single-precision Julia test and the X4 965 has to settle second place.

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