sigh... it's the memory score that's doing it dag nammit!!! Reminds me of the days when the Phenom range wasn't half bad. Just a quarter bad. Before being ousted by FX and becoming half bad
Been faffing with my new graphics card mainly today but was wondering, my RAM is set currently in T2 now i remember back in the old althon XP days setting it to 1T gave it a slight performance edge. Is the same true now and i so anyone know what its called in Gigabytes BIOS?
It's called "command rate" and doesn't make a huge difference these days, not to mention that it can be very hard to set in the first instance. I often leave mine at 2T simply because it's easier on the memory controller and I can use lower voltages for stability.
Thansk lenny, it actually hurt my scores some what. Its confusing that higher clock speed dont trasnlate to a better score though http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/537097 Thats a fair bit lower than i have been getting, seems this bench prefers low multipliers with high FSBS
Higher clock speed will translate to a better score if your memory bandwidth is also higher, but higher clock speed alone won't be enough. What I've also found is that if the OC isn't stable, the score will suffer. I'm really struggling to get a good score at 4.4GHz because my CPU needs a lot of juice and doesn't seem to want to co-operate.
Done some OC'ing Got to 4ghz but wasn't stable :/ will settle for 3.5 instead. http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/537156
4.5mhz as per my sig which it already states, i will push my oc later....tho this time to get a link i changed nothing but got a better score? I see the test is pretty solid then http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/537190
Well, here is my girlfriends laptop: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/537254 It's a testament to sandybridge eh? Clocked at 2ghz it's as fast as my Phenom at 3.9ghz pretty much. It's twenty percent off my floating point scores, 5.4% off my integer scores and has much better memory performance. The laptop is a Dell XPS L502X. It pretty much cements my decision to jump ship I think. TBH I only bought the Phenom in the first place to save money. It was jolly good for it too really. £90 for the chip. Much cheaper than this laptop over all
I don't know what causes it, but every AMD rig is losing out by around 50% in the memory score. Any Ideas on this one chaps?
I know but Geekbench isn't reporting clock speeds reliably, so it's a good idea to actually state the clock speed too. AMD's memory controller/performance isn't as efficient as Intel's?
