Final Rendering

Other Applications

We decided not to comment on the AMD performance numbers after each chart. The thing is that the results are almost always the same: AMD Phenom 9600 loses dramatically to Intel’s quad-core processors from the same price range. And not only to the upcoming Core 2 Quad Q9300, but also to the Core 2 Quad Q6600 that has been selling for quite some time already. Even at 2.6GHz speed, Phenom 9600 is considerably behind the competitors on Core micro-architecture.

As for the TLB-patch, we prefer not to mention it at all. Enabling it affects the efficiency of processor work with the memory subsystem and hence causes a significant performance drop in applications sensitive to memory performance.