Phenom II outperformed its closest rival, Core 2 Q9400 in both Cinebench (by 9%) and our Windows Media Encoder testing (6%), but the Q9400 reigned supreme in our DivX conversion tests thanks largely to SSE4. Valve’s particle simulation benchmark also ran faster on Core 2 Q9400, with the 940 trailing by 10%.
Our load power consumption testing was done with Far Cry 2 running very high settings at 1600x1200 4xAA/8xAF. At this setting the majority of the power actually comes from our Radeon 4870 X2 GPU, although you can see that Phenom II improves upon Phenom 9950, but the Q9400 bests it in overall power consumption.
What performance improvement does Phenom II bring on a clock-for-clock basis?
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