pts/multicore
AMD Phenom II X4 955 testing with a ASUS Crosshair V Formula and ATI Radeon HD 5700 1024MB on Slackware 13.37.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


AMD 955BE @ stock: 

	Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: ATI RD890, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10EALX-009, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5700 1024MB (860/1200MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: B2430L, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Slackware 13.37.0, Kernel: 3.1.2 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.9.5, Display Driver: fglrx 8.91.4 Catalyst 11.11, OpenGL: 4.1.11251, Compiler: GCC 4.5.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

X3450: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon X3450 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: IBM 94Y6038, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 999GB ServeRAID M5014, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200EV, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection

	OS: Debian 6.0.3, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3


7-Zip Compression 9.13
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 10035 |======================================
X3450 ............. 13869 |====================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 15.51 |====================================================
X3450 ............. 12.43 |==========================================


x264 2010-11-22
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 52.99 |=====================================
X3450 ............. 74.58 |====================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.0a
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 52.43 |====================================================
X3450 ............. 40.60 |========================================


Gcrypt Library 1.4.4
CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher
Microseconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 4555 |=====================================================
X3450 ............. 3490 |=========================================


John The Ripper 1.7.8
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 909 |======================================================
X3450 ............. 691 |=========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 42 |===========================================
X3450 ............. 54 |=======================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 87 |==================================================
X3450 ............. 96 |=======================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 181.17 |==============================================
X3450 ............. 198.94 |===================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 105.84 |===================================================
X3450 ............. 74.52  |====================================


POV-Ray 3.6.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 1077 |=====================================================
X3450 ............. 1037 |===================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 197 |======================================================
X3450 ............. 152 |==========================================


Crafty 23.3
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 461.60 |===================================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 19.23 |====================================================
X3450 ............. 17.86 |================================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.706
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 39.91 |====================================================
X3450 ............. 32.07 |==========================================


Minion 0.9
Benchmark: Quasigroup
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 219.24 |===========================================
X3450 ............. 259.67 |===================================================


Minion 0.9
Benchmark: Solitaire
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 246.18 |===================================================
X3450 ............. 218.58 |=============================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: EP.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 91.80  |=================================
X3450 ............. 142.12 |===================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: IS.C
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 82.90 |===================================================
X3450 ............. 83.96 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: LU.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 6137.28 |=============================================
X3450 ............. 6840.88 |==================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: UA.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 25.32 |==========================================
X3450 ............. 31.14 |====================================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 12.38 |========================
X3450 ............. 27.38 |====================================================


Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD 955BE @ stock . 44.51 |====================================================