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PCMark Vantage Benchmark Tests
PCMark Vantage is an objective hardware performance benchmark tool for PCs running 32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7. PCMark Vantage is well suited for benchmarking any type of Microsoft Windows Vista/7 PC: from multimedia home entertainment systems and laptops, to dedicated workstations and high-end gaming rigs. Benchmark Reviews has decided to use a few select tests from the suite to demonstrate simulated real-world processor usage in this article. Our tests were conducted on 64-bit Windows 7, with results displayed in the chart below.
TV and Movies Suite
- TV and Movies 1 (CPU=50%, RAM=2%, GPU=45%, SSD=3%)
- Two simultaneous threads
- Video transcoding: HD DVD to media server archive
- Video playback: HD DVD w/ additional lower bitrate HD content from HDD, as downloaded from net
- TV and Movies 2 (CPU=50%, RAM=2%, GPU=45%, SSD=3%)
- Two simultaneous threads
- Video transcoding: HD DVD to media server archive
- Video playback, HD MPEG-2: 19.39 Mbps terrestrial HDTV playback
- TV and Movies 3 (SSD=100%)
- TV and Movies 4 (CPU=50%, RAM=2%, GPU=45%, SSD=3%)
- Video transcoding: media server archive to portable device
- Video playback, HD MPEG-2: 48 Mbps Blu-ray playback
Gaming Suite*
- Gaming 1 (CPU=30%, GPU=70%)
- Gaming 2 (SSD=100%)
- Gaming 3 (CPU=75%, RAM=5%, SSD=20%)
- Two simultaneous threads
- CPU game test
- Data decompression: level loading
- Gaming 4 (CPU=42%, RAM=1%, GPU=24%, SSD=33%)
- Three simultaneous threads
- GPU game test
- CPU game test
- HDD: game HDD
Music Suite
- Music 1 (CPU=50%, RAM=3%, GPU=13%, SSD=34%)
- Three simultaneous threads
- Web page rendering - w/ music shop content
- Audio transcoding: WAV -> WMA lossless
- HDD: Adding music to Windows Media Player
- Music 2 (CPU=100%)
- Audio transcoding: WAV -> WMA lossless
- Music 3 (CPU=100%)
- Audio transcoding: MP3 -> WMA
- Music 4 (CPU=50%, SSD=50%)
- Two simultaneous threads
- Audio transcoding: WMA -> WMA
- HDD: Adding music to Windows Media Player
* EDITOR'S NOTE: Hopefully our readers will carefully consider how relative PCMark Vantage is as "real-world" benchmark, since many of the tests rely on unrelated hardware components. For example, per the FutureMark PCMark Vantage White Paper document, Gaming test #2 weighs the storage device for 100% of the test score. In fact, according to PCMark Vantage the video card only impacts 23% of the total gaming score, but the CPU represents 37% of the final score. As our tests in this article (and many others) has already proven, gaming performance has a lot more to do with the GPU than the CPU, and especially more than the hard drive or SSD (which is worth 38% of the final gaming performance score).
The PCMark Vantage test are all over the place. This is likely due to the fact that much of the testing relies on components other than the CPU. While we kept the test systems as similar as possible, because of the different hardware required, it wasn't possible to only change the CPU. In the overall average PCMark score, the Phenom-II X4-945 falls behind the X4-840 as well as the two Intel CPUs. The difference is made up when the Phenom-II X4-975BE is overclocked to 4.0GHz, and the overall PCMark score is better than any other CPU on the chart. The TV and Movies and Gaming scores still fall below i5-2500K CPU, however.
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Comments
CPU CPU Clock Motherboard Chipset Memory CL-RCD-RP-RAS Score
4x Core i7 920 HT 3800 MHz Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 v2 X58 Triple DDR3-1448 8-8-8-24 CR2
This is a Bloomfield chip.
Passmark 7
CPU Mark: 7884
Memory Mark: 3263
Street Fighter IV: 8934
x264
AVI: 84
MP4: 34
And note that although the 975BE @ 4Ghz comes close to the stock 920 in Queen, it's still about 6% slower and in Photoworxx a full 30%+ slower. That at 4Ghz the best of AMD can only muster what a now lowly 920 can do at 2.66Ghz is pretty sad.
Feel free to read my review of the Phenom-II X4-840 as well -- #benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=662&Itemid=63
965 + 300MHz OC = stock 975BE and it's the same deneb die you only going to get out of a 975BE what would be attainable from an 965 + a descent cooler