AMD FX-4100 vs. Fusion vs. Sandy Bridge

AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core Bulldozer CPU benchmarking for Phoronix.com on a remote system for a future article. Thanks to Daniel Newkirk for the SSH access to this AMD Bulldozer system due to lack of AMD FX CPUs at Phoronix. Comparison against AMD Llano Fusion A8-3850 and Intel Sandy Bridge processors.

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October 17 2011
 
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October 17 2011
 
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October 17 2011
 
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October 17 2011
 
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October 19 2011
 
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AMD FX-4100 vs. Fusion vs. Sandy Bridge AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core Bulldozer CPU benchmarking for Phoronix.com on a remote system for a future article. Thanks to Daniel Newkirk for the SSH access to this AMD Bulldozer system due to lack of AMD FX CPUs at Phoronix. Comparison against AMD Llano Fusion A8-3850 and Intel Sandy Bridge processors. ,,"AMD FX-4100","AMD A8-3850","Intel Core i5 2400S","Intel Core i3 2120","Intel Core i5 2500K","Q9450 8GB ddr2 @1000 radeon 6670 1GB" Processor,,AMD FX-4100 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores),AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,ASUS M5A97 EVO,,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3, Chipset,,ATI RD890 PCI to PCI bridge,AMD Device 1705,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family,Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9 Memory,,16384MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB Disk,,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2000GB SAMSUNG HD204UI + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,74GB Western Digital WDC WD740GD-00FL + 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WDC WD1002FAEX-0 Graphics,,NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),AMD Radeon HD 6670 1024MB (810/1000MHz) Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892, Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B, Monitor,,,,,,,G220fb OS,,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Slamd64 12.2.0 Kernel,,2.6.38-11-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.39.4 (x86_64) Display Driver,,NVIDIA 1.0.0,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,fglrx 8.88.7 Catalyst 11.8 Compiler,,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.4.5 + Clang 4.2.1 + llvm 2.9 File-System,,xfs,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext2/ext3 Desktop,,,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Xfce 4.8.0 Display Server,,,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.9.5 OpenGL,,,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06, Screen Resolution,,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,2048x1536 ,,"AMD FX-4100","AMD A8-3850","Intel Core i5 2400S","Intel Core i3 2120","Intel Core i5 2500K","Q9450 8GB ddr2 @1000 radeon 6670 1GB" "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off | AA: 2x Box - AF: 2x (FPS)",HIB,,,,,,113.88 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 | AA: 2x Box - AF: 2x (FPS)",HIB,,,,,,216.90 "Unigine Tropics - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,64.31,64.11,64.20,64.17, "Unigine Sanctuary - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,76.64,76.68,76.84,76.78, "Lightsmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,371.43,536.77,520.57,546.15, "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,,166.93,185.12,184.56,187.39, "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,330.30,524.33,500.53,565.67, "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,2.31,2.97,2.76,3.24,3.19, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,21.48,20.94,31.31,23.68,37.28,15.98 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3735.79,3553.27,5362.26,3815.97,6132.67,2775.61 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3645.03,3534.66,6116.87,4489.63,6517.09,2806.43 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6058.10,5899.28,7825.54,5780.62,9834.04,5055.84 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,99.91,97.05,164.27,165.30,183.57,83.96 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3785.19,4124.04,4970.15,3605.97,6199.94,3342.26 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,78.97,84.21,104.23,102.14,136.32,98.71 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1788.94,1455.24,2333.07,1500.72,2680.08,1412.01 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5982.31,7400.05,9419.50,6470.07,11798.80,6491.46 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,28.86,33.16,22.00,22.18,19.66,34.34 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,50.19,47.71,61.62,48.90,76.03,50.11 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,16.50,29.04,17.28,14.21,16.43,13.10 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,8.75,8.51,6.98,6.96,6.22,11.31 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,28.69,31.19,21.29,21.26,18.98,32.84 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8877,9488,10060,8008,12670,8696 "Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,3777,4100,3050,3037,2720,3430 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,63.65,52.93,77.63,77.45,86.55,39.20 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,866,852,794,797,890,691 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,14082,13466,12697,12733,14191,11510 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,3523667,2645333,4101333,4177000,4668667,2817000 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,47,37,43,47, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,92,98,101,103,125, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,44,39,43,50, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,87,71,76,82,94, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,123,115,131,126,159, "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,293780,247942,471073,471638,528780,259458 "POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,913,1161,784,783,701,1165 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,211,216,187,213,144,205 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,106.75,103.60,70.11,110.69,53.39,94.15