Phenom II X4 925 benchmarks

The AM3 socket is sure to bring some performance improvements to AMD's top performing processors, especially due to the use of DDR3-1333, up from 1066MHz for the AM2+ Phenom. Read on preliminary for benchmarks.

AMD will soon (next month) be releasing more information on the new AM3 models based on the Phenom II core. The biggest improvement is obviously the support for the still expensive DDR3 RAM but some processors have other improvements as well.
The Phenom II X4 925, benchmarked here today, has another improvement: TDP. The power consumption for the 2.8GHz Phenom II X4 is down to 95W, versus 125W of the Phenom II X4 920.
Multiplier is locked, as this is not a Black Edition variant - that will be left for the 3GHz X4 945 or the 3.1GHz 950, although there are rumors about a 4MB L3 X4 model with unlocked multiplier.

Enough talk, here are some quick benchmarks(click for full-size):


You will notice that most improvements come only in benchmarks that benefit greatly from the added bandwidth, as are highlighted in green, mostly the graphics related benchmark and bandwidth throughput. Since the Phenom II X4 940 runs at 200MHz more than the 925, most of the compute intensive benchmarks sway for the AM2+ side.

The increase in throughput is of a healthy 15%, although the theoretical bandwidth has increased 25% from 1066 to 1333MHz, or from 17000MB/s (dual-channel), to 21333MB/s - not keen on efficiency then.

For a more in depth look on the effect of DDR3 in integrated graphics performance, take a look at the previous benchmarks from Jetway's COMBO board.