AMD Athlon X2 7850 vs. Intel Pentium E5300: Choosing the Best $70 CPU
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 28, 2009 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Microsoft Excel 2007
Excel can be a very powerful mathematical tool. In this benchmark we're running a Monte Carlo simulation on a very large spreadsheet of stock pricing data.
PAR2 Multithreaded Archive Recovery Performance
Par2 is an application used for reconstructing downloaded archives. It can generate parity data from a given archive and later use it to recover the archive.
Chuchusoft took the source code of par2cmdline 0.4 and parallelized it using Intel’s Threading Building Blocks 2.1. The result is a version of par2cmdline that can spawn multiple threads to repair par2 archives. For this test we took a 708MB archive, corrupted nearly 60MB of it, and used the multithreaded par2cmdline to recover it. The scores reported are the repair and recover time in seconds.
WinRAR - Archive Creation
Our WinRAR test simply takes 300MB of files and compresses them into a single RAR archive using the application's default settings. We're not doing anything exotic here, just looking at the impact of CPU performance on creating an archive:
In its first major win of the day the Athlon X2 7850 is 20% faster than the E5300 in our WinRAR compression test.
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just4U - Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - link
Can't see the 5300 outdoing the 5200 really. At best it might equal it or not be as good. I Don't even see why anyone would buy the 5300 for overclocking at all.. (unless ofcourse the 5200 is at the end of it's line)as a guesstimate...
5300 might get anywhere from 3.8-4.0+
4850 would get anywhere from 3.1-3.3+
End of overclock guestimate review (grin)
(on article topic.. Great review. Mixed bag of results really and once you factor in budget chipset boards it clouds the choice even further)
memphist0 - Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - link
Definately would like to see some overclocking with a mid range coolerErif - Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - link
Yes, I'd like to see how the 7850 OCes compared to my 7750.johnsonx - Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - link
There's unlikely to be any different at all between a 7850 and 7750; any differences would be the normal chip to chip variability in overclocking. It's not a comparison even worth doing.Doc01 - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - link
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