Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /httpdocs/libraries/src/Document/Renderer/Html/ScriptsRenderer.php on line 69
NitroWare.net - Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950 OC Graphics Card and CPU scaling Review
Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /httpdocs/libraries/src/Document/Document.php on line 514

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /httpdocs/libraries/src/Document/Document.php on line 518

Overall System Performance Benchmarks

Red System – AMD A6-3650 APU and Gigabyte A75M-UD2H Motherboard
Green System – AMD FX-6100 CPU and Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 Motherboard
Blue System – Intel Core i7-3960X CPU and Intel DX79SI Motherboard

Futuremark’s PCMark tests are engineered to represent typical use-case scenarios such as media encoding, graphics, gaming and web browsing.

PCMark vantage is able to make the best use of Bulldozer’s design proving very competitive to Intel.  The GPU proves more limiting in PCMark 7

PerformanceTest 7 and Geekbench, a cross platform Windows and Mac  synthetic CPU benchmark shows how much the 12 thread Intel i7 can run away in some scenarios, 2X.  Remember it is more expensive.  However, the AMD FX-6100 is able to show 1.5X over the quad core AMD A6.

Larger memory cache plus L3 cache on the AMD FX platform elevates the memory performance on AMD FX however the processor score barely budges.  Windows Experience Index is a true benchmark it is not a guesstimate score, the benchmark runs in the background.  To see the actual CPU benchmark, the test can be run from the command line.

Although we really want to focus on graphics performance scaling in this review, we have included some CPU only benchmarks so we can get an indication or baseline if you will of the platform performance independant of the graphics solution.

These tests represent real-world use cases, software installation are tasks users perform everyday and are depenandant on multiple factors, Multi or Single threaded performance, Memory bandwidth (especially when data is cached), disk system.

The AMD A6 and FX are too closely matched in Acrobat and iTunes installation, so close that a typical user may not notice the difference between the platforms. It is worth noting these programs use third party installation routines.

Things change when we look at Live Essentials which uses a propertiary Microsoft installation system which unpacks individual installation packages to disk and the software itself comprises of several applications. Multi-threading benefits installation of Live with a large jump from the quad core AMD A6 to both the hex core AMD FX and Intel i7 systems. Intel's hyper threading and massive memory bandwidth using quad channels versus dual for AMD does not as much as cores, 18 seconds between both AMD systems versus 6 seconds between AMD FX and Intel i7.

Price for performance the Intel CPU platform which costs three times as much as the AMD can only deliver a 2X performance boost at best if not a small improvement.

SuperPI is a synthetic benchmark tool used to determine system single threaded performance and system stabilty by calculating Pi to a set number of decimal places. AMD Bulldozer exchanges single threaded performance for multi threaded performance which is the architectures main downside. This is well reported and there is not much more we can say on the matter with Intel being 2.5X as fast in this math calculation task. At three times the price the Intel i7 does deliver a value proposition.

Archiving programs scale well with additional thread counts as shown in our archiving tests. Both 7-Zip and WinRAR include benchmark tests that calculate the archiving throughput possible on a system excluding the disk.  We can see healthy gains in throughput performance when we set up the core count between AMD CPUx, 1.5X increase for two extra cores. With six dedicated cores plus hyperthreading and quad channel memory Intel is able to almost double the throughput of the six core AMD FX system.

Things are tighter with the Fritz Chess Benchmark where we see AMD Bulldozer gain 1.25X only over AMD Llano, higher clockspeeds on Llano should be able to close this gap.
Fritz Chess Benchmark is an AI simulation of Chess Software, as with archiving Intel's threading and memory setup nets 2X increase.

2018-09-21 | NVIDIA QUADRO RTX 6000 In action - Photoshop, Porsche RTX, Kubernetes, CLARA and Metropolis


2018-09-20 | NVIDIA RTX Live Demo - Ray Traced Porsche on Turing GPU


2018-09-21 | EPSON goes bright with laser projection and 4K


2018-09-15 | 8 NVIDIA TESLA V100 VOLTA GPU server from HP


2017-12-31 | Future of Networking with Extreme Networks - Eric Broockman CTO Interview


2018-02-16 | NVIDIA’S VOLTA is real, it works and it is finally here.


2018-02-07 | motorola harbourside chat and interview | moto x4, g5s plus, 360 camera & gamepad


2018-02-07 | Inwin X-Frame product tour and interview


2018-02-07 | ASUS Zenbook 3 Deluxe UX490 Ultrabook


2017-11-20 | VICHYPER - Australian Hyperloop Interview and Tour


2017-11-17 | Eugene Kaspersky & Kaspersky Lab Press Conference Sydney 2017


2017-11-17 | Eugene Kaspersky Keynote Sydney 2017


2017-05-21 | AMD RYZEN - Australian launch and Q&A Session | BIOS Update Detailed


2016-11-21 | Motorola Mobility VP Engineering Interview | Moto Z and Moto Mods Developer Kit for Makers & Modders


2016-11-30 | EPSON Tech Interview | 2016 Business and Professional Projectors


2016-11-30 | EPSON Tech Interview | 2016 Home Theatre Projectors 6000, 8000 & 9000 Series


2016-11-22 | EPSON HDR Home Theatre Projector Demo | EPSON TW9300W


2016-11-21 | HDR video Demo - AMD Radeon 'Polaris' RX480 with LG OLED TV


2016-11-30 | Intel Game Chamber 2016 Tour and Interviews | VR, Games, PC Mods, Overclocking and FUN


2016-11-30 | Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E @ 5.62 GHz Live Overclock | Intel Game Chamber 2016


2016-08-29 | LG puts OLED in all the things - Integrate/CEDIA AUS 2016 Booth Tour


2016-08-12 | What is Software Defined Networking with Doug Murray, CEO Big Switch Networks.


2016-06-17 | NVIDIA DGX-1 launches in Australia - NVIDIA ANZ Interviewed


2016-05-01 | Build a kickass Dolby ATMOS Home Theatre - The Pros show us how


2016-04-01 | The Panasonic Toughbook CF-20 Story


2016-03-23 | Seagate 8TB Family, 10TB Helium & Mobile HDD 2016 Hard Disk Update


2016-03-21 | Panasonic Toughbook 20 : Fully Rugged detachable Laptop launch - Water, Drop & Weight Tested


2016-03-23 | ASUS ROG Gaming House Tour - Sydney, Australia


2016-03-01 | ASUS ROG GX700 Liquid Cooled Notebook Preview & Interview


2016-03-23 | League of Legends Legacy eSports Team Interview


2015-12-09 | Microsoft Store SYDNEY - Grand Opening Press Conference


2015-11-11 | HP 6th Gen Core Intel Skylake PC & Jet Intelligence Printing Launch - Melbourne Experience Centre


2015-11-11 | HP Experience Centre Melbourne Tour -Part 2


2015-11-11 | HP Experience Centre Melbourne Tour -Part 1


2015-08-28 | Parrot Interviewed - Flower Power Wireless Plant Monitor


2015-08-28 | Parrot Interviewed - ZiK 2.0 Headphones


2015-08-28 | Parrot Interviewed - AR. Drone, MiniDrones, Bebop Drone


2015-08-23 | MOTO G 3rd Gen IPX7 Water Proofing Demo & Moto X Style/Play/G Q&A


2015-08-21 | Motorola Mobility Interviewed - 3rd Gen Moto G, Moto X Play, Moto X Style


2015-08-20 | NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 950 Launch Ep.1 | Gamestream Co-Op - A New way to share games


2015-08-20 | NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 950 Launch Ep.2 | MOBA/DOTA 2 Latency and Smoothness


2015-08-08 | Intel SKYLAKE i5-6600K LN2 overclock at 6.33 GHz with ASUS Z170 ROG Hero


2015-08-07 | Intel Skylake i7-6700K @ 4.8 GHz & DDR4 @ 3.5GHz on ASUS Z170 Deluxe Overclocking Guide


2015-08-05 | ASUS Z170 Deluxe Motherboard for Intel Skylake 6th Gen Core CPU Overview


2015-08-05 | Review - ASUS Installation Tool for Intel SKYLAKE 6th Gen Core CPU


2015-08-02 | HP Pavilion and Envy 2015 Consumer Notebook First Look


2015-07-25 | HP Envy Phoenix 2015 Overclockable Gaming Tower First Look


2015-07-22 | Ashes Of The Singularity - DirectX 12 Hands-On Demo with AMD FURY X


2015-07-14 | Media Q&A with AMD and Richard Huddy - AMD Fury X ‘Fiji’ Graphics comes to Australia


2015-07-14 | MSI Interview - AMD Radeon R9 300 Gaming, Armour and Lightning GPUs