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 15 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 17 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 i3 2120","Intel Core i5 2400S","Intel Core i5 2500K","FX-4100","AMD FX-4100 @ 4.2GHz" Processor,,AMD FX-4100 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores),AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX -4100 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-4100 @ 4.22GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,ASUS M5A97 EVO,,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3,Gigabyte GA-880GMA-USB3 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,,AMD RS880 Memory,,16384MB,8192MB,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 VERTEX2,200GB SAMSUNG SP2004C + 250GB SAMSUNG SP2504C,3 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN1 + 60GB Corsair Force 3 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),NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB (540/400MHz),ATI Radeon HD 4250 512MB (560/667MHz) Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889 Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 Monitor,,,,,,,,CMC 22 W OS,,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Gentoo 2.0.3,Ubuntu 12.04 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),3.2.1-gentoo-r2 (x86_64),3.2.0-60-generic (x86_64) Display Driver,,NVIDIA 1.0.0,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 290.10,fglrx 8.97.2 Compiler,,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.3 + llvm 2.9,GCC 4.6 File-System,,xfs,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext3,ext4 Desktop,,,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,GNOME 2.32.1,Unity 5.20.0 Display Server,,,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.11.2,X Server 1.11.3 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 270.41.06,3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10,3.3.11672 Screen Resolution,,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1680x1050 ,,"AMD FX-4100","AMD A8-3850","Intel Core i3 2120","Intel Core i5 2400S","Intel Core i5 2500K","FX-4100","AMD FX-4100 @ 4.2GHz" "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,50.19,47.71,48.90,61.62,76.03,49.29,56.77 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,330.30,500.53,524.33,565.67,158.40,277.27 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,,166.93,184.56,185.12,187.39,,13.13 "Lightsmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,371.43,520.57,536.77,546.15,, "Unigine Sanctuary - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,76.64,76.84,76.68,76.78,10.06, "Unigine Tropics - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,64.31,64.20,64.11,64.17,9.89, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,123,115,126,131,159,124, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,87,71,82,76,94,71, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,44,43,39,50,38, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,92,98,103,101,125,85, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,47,43,37,47,32, "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8877,9488,8008,10060,12670,8851,10248 "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,293780,247942,471638,471073,528780,261910,315127 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,3523667,2645333,4177000,4101333,4668667,3249000,3673333 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,14082,13466,12733,12697,14191,13372,15535 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,866,852,797,794,890,822,1002 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,63.65,52.93,77.45,77.63,86.55,58.90,70.98 "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,2.31,2.97,3.24,2.76,3.19,,2.18 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5982.31,7400.05,6470.07,9419.50,11798.80,6262.06,6415.45 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1788.94,1455.24,1500.72,2333.07,2680.08,1744.30,1784.39 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,78.97,84.21,102.14,104.23,136.32,77.08,94.90 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3785.19,4124.04,3605.97,4970.15,6199.94,3757.15,3490.74 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,99.91,97.05,165.30,164.27,183.57,100.62,104.19 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6058.10,5899.28,5780.62,7825.54,9834.04,6035.40,6572.27 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3645.03,3534.66,4489.63,6116.87,6517.09,3575.62,3285.39 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3735.79,3553.27,3815.97,5362.26,6132.67,3606.40,3448.87 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,21.48,20.94,23.68,31.31,37.28,20.81,22.14 "Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,3777,4100,3037,3050,2720,3638, "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,106.75,103.60,110.69,70.11,53.39,105.22,97.42 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,211,216,213,187,144,215,207 "POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,913,1161,783,784,701,,825 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,28.69,31.19,21.26,21.29,18.98,31.07,26.76 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,8.75,8.51,6.96,6.98,6.22,10.32,7.83 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,16.50,29.04,14.21,17.28,16.43,15.61,10.26 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,28.86,33.16,22.18,22.00,19.66,31.40,