AMD's Athlon II X3 435 & New Energy Efficient CPUs: Killing Intel Below $90
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 20, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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3dsmax 9 - SPECapc 3dsmax CPU Rendering Test
Today's desktop processors are more than fast enough to do professional level 3D rendering at home. To look at performance under 3dsmax we ran the SPECapc 3dsmax 8 benchmark (only the CPU rendering tests) under 3dsmax 9 SP1. The results reported are the rendering composite scores:
Compared to the Intel dual-core options, the Athlon II X3 435 is a definite winner here. It's got the core count and clock speed to beat the old Penryn derivatives. Its biggest competition comes from its own family, the Athlon II X4 620 is the better buy here.
Cinebench R10
Created by the Cinema 4D folks we have Cinebench, a popular 3D rendering benchmark that gives us both single and multi-threaded 3D rendering results.
As I've been mentioning this entire time, the Athlon II X3 435 doesn't really sacrifice clock speed in its three-core configuration. At 2.9GHz even its single threaded performance is comparable to the Pentium E6300. Run a multithreaded app however and the performance goes from parity to leading:
POV-Ray 3.73 beta 23 Ray Tracing Performance
POV-Ray is a popular, open-source raytracing application that also doubles as a great tool to measure CPU floating point performance.
I ran the SMP benchmark in beta 23 of POV-Ray 3.73. The numbers reported are the final score in pixels per second.
The POV-Ray results echo what we've been seeing thus far, vs. Intel there's no contest - the 435 is the better value. Compared to the quad-core Athlon IIs however, the 435 isn't very good.
Blender 2.48a
Blender is an open source 3D modeling application. Our benchmark here simply times how long it takes to render a character that comes with the application.
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maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Please, don't see those crappy AMD processors. With Intel upcoming Core I3, Intel will rule the HTPC ethusiast that care about power consumption with decent HD quality and full HD audio.Ahmed0 - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Oooh... fancy buzzwords like "HD"...Im posting from a computer using an old "crappy" AMD processor (which, funnily, is a fair bit faster than Intels offering from the same timeperiod).
I also have a newer Intel/Nvidia based system and I like both of my systems.
Your fanboyism reminds me of SiliconDoc who was banned recently... coninue like you do and youll end up the same way. Now, post some constructive criticism/arguments or shut up...
maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Yeah, it is up to you if you like both your own PC whether is Intel or AMD. But, I remind you, Intel will be no more as a company in 2011 after AMD filed chapter 11 in Q3 2010. This is the nature of moore's law that only the number 1 company will become the only supplier of semiconductor products.Summer - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Good showing by AMD. Hopefully AMD can keep this up. Competitive market = great for consumers!maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
The world will be a better place without AMD. Intel does not need competition in PC Market, and soon, Intel will destroy ARM stronghold in Handhelds too with low power Intel Atom. I believe with many smart engineers, Intel will not stop the innovation with products that become cheaper and cheaper. I believe what Monpoloy Man have said.Quickwind - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Always nice to see these low end processors around so that if I need to I can build a cheap but effective computer for a family member.And I know it's bad to feed the trolls but.... Do you even know what competition does for the market? How it creates lower prices and pushes innovation to stay ahead?
maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Nice to see you are trolling. Intel will always innovates and its products will gradually cheaper and cheaper as Moore's Law even wthout competitor, see the facts you are using Intel now. Intel will make the consumer happy with more powerful and cheap products.Zool - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
When you buy a amd procesor for the same price than intel than the average pc usage speed is virtualy same if u dont sit before you computer with a stopwatch.And after a while heawy parallel software like graphics and encodings will switch to OpenCL and use GPU and CPU so intel speed will be irelewant there.
maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
What? Dont underestimate Intel with parallel processing. Intel bright engineers like Francois Piednoel and Justin Rattner have made the most efficient parallel processing in the world. That is why Justin Rattner had putted AMD Opteron in the trash during IDF 2006.Jamahl - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link
Somebody ban this moron please.