Sisoft Sandra Synthetic Benchmark Performance
Sisoft Sandra is a great synthetic benchmark suite that allows testing of numerous system components. I’ll be using the CPU arithmetic, Memory Bandwidth and Memory Latency tests.
We’re using version 14.20, which is multi-core aware and triple-core friendly.
As you can see, there is a lot of potential processing power in the X3s. Even the E8400 is outpaced by the X3 8750 in these multi-core tests.
Thanks to the integrated memory controllers, the AMD chips have heaps of memory bandwidth at their disposal. The Phenoms even more so than the X2s.
Intel’s very fast and very large L2 cache really brings down their overall random access latency.