AMD AM3 CPUs Monitor A Processor comparison of AMD AM3+ CPUs for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. AMD FX-8370E: Processor: AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core @ 3.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-6cd0dbc 2014-08-29 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD FX-8370: Processor: AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-6cd0dbc 2014-08-29 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD FX-9590: Processor: AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core @ 4.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-6cd0dbc 2014-08-29 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Core i7-4790K - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 640: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme6, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB Seagate ST240HM000 + 500GB Western Digital WD5002AALX-0 + 256GB PLEXTOR PX-G256M, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2048MB (901/891MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Samsung S24B20/S24B30, Network: Intel Connection OS: LinuxMint 17, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.2.16, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.38, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E ..................................... 96.82 |================= AMD FX-8370 ...................................... 104.31 |=================== AMD FX-9590 ...................................... 112.16 |==================== Intel Core i7-4790K - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 . 82.86 |=============== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E ..................................... 135.26 |================== AMD FX-8370 ...................................... 144.83 |=================== AMD FX-9590 ...................................... 153.60 |==================== Intel Core i7-4790K - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 . 131.86 |================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E ..................................... 117.61 |================== AMD FX-8370 ...................................... 122.72 |=================== AMD FX-9590 ...................................... 128.36 |==================== Intel Core i7-4790K - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 . 103.75 |================ Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E ..................................... 87.21 |==================== AMD FX-8370 ...................................... 90.07 |==================== AMD FX-9590 ...................................... 92.58 |===================== Intel Core i7-4790K - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 . 74.17 |================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E ..................................... 33.52763 |=============== AMD FX-8370 ...................................... 40.75433 |================== AMD FX-9590 ...................................... 24.88140 |=========== Intel Core i7-4790K - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 . 5.17641 |== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . 96.97 |====================================================== AMD FX-8370 .. 82.97 |============================================== AMD FX-9590 .. 101.38 |======================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E ..................................... 23.51 |==================== AMD FX-8370 ...................................... 19.37 |================= AMD FX-9590 ...................................... 24.17 |===================== Intel Core i7-4790K - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 . 20.61 |================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E . 0.53 |======================================================== AMD FX-8370 .. 0.55 |========================================================== AMD FX-9590 .. 0.50 |===================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 9.5 AVG: 14.0 MAX: 25.0 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 10.9 AVG: 15.2 MAX: 29.8 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 5.3 AVG: 18.8 MAX: 33.4 Tesseract 2014-05-12 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 98 AVG: 184 MAX: 205 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 97 AVG: 191 MAX: 228 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 101 AVG: 224 MAX: 254 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E . 0.71 |======================================================== AMD FX-8370 .. 0.74 |========================================================== AMD FX-9590 .. 0.69 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.7 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 9.8 AVG: 18.5 MAX: 27.6 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 11.4 AVG: 20.3 MAX: 28.6 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 5.4 AVG: 24.7 MAX: 36.0 Xonotic 0.7 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 98 AVG: 191 MAX: 219 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 97 AVG: 195 MAX: 239 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 101 AVG: 224 MAX: 270 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E . 0.59 |========================================================= AMD FX-8370 .. 0.60 |========================================================== AMD FX-9590 .. 0.55 |===================================================== Xonotic 0.7 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 9.8 AVG: 18.5 MAX: 28.8 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 11.5 AVG: 20.2 MAX: 28.5 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 5.1 AVG: 24.3 MAX: 36.6 Xonotic 0.7 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 98 AVG: 200 MAX: 240 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 97 AVG: 205 MAX: 248 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 101 AVG: 233 MAX: 278 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E . 0.43 |========================================================== AMD FX-8370 .. 0.43 |========================================================== AMD FX-9590 .. 0.40 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.7 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 9.5 AVG: 18.0 MAX: 28.6 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 11.3 AVG: 19.1 MAX: 29.5 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 5.3 AVG: 21.8 MAX: 37.9 Xonotic 0.7 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 98 AVG: 204 MAX: 233 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 97 AVG: 210 MAX: 239 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 101 AVG: 232 MAX: 260 HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8370E . 0.17 |========================================================== AMD FX-8370 .. 0.16 |======================================================= AMD FX-9590 .. 0.09 |=============================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 12.8 AVG: 25.0 MAX: 27.6 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 16.3 AVG: 35.2 MAX: 41.8 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 7.9 AVG: 37.5 MAX: 50.9 HPC Challenge 1.4.3 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 97 AVG: 193 MAX: 204 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 99 AVG: 260 MAX: 282 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 101 AVG: 262 MAX: 440 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 12.1 AVG: 26.7 MAX: 37.4 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 14.9 AVG: 36.9 MAX: 40.4 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 8.0 AVG: 41.5 MAX: 48.0 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 97 AVG: 180 MAX: 190 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 98 AVG: 230 MAX: 260 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 101 AVG: 252 MAX: 384 C-Ray 1.1 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 12.1 AVG: 22.1 MAX: 24.3 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 15.0 AVG: 30.5 MAX: 35.0 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 8.1 AVG: 34.7 MAX: 41.9 C-Ray 1.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 98 AVG: 163 MAX: 188 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 98 AVG: 218 MAX: 260 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 118 AVG: 254 MAX: 390 CPU Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Celsius AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 9.3 AVG: 22.4 MAX: 37.4 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 10.3 AVG: 29.2 MAX: 41.8 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 4.5 AVG: 33.0 MAX: 50.9 System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Watts AMD FX-8370E . MIN: 97 AVG: 188 MAX: 240 AMD FX-8370 .. MIN: 97 AVG: 231 MAX: 282 AMD FX-9590 .. MIN: 100 AVG: 247 MAX: 440