AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Review

Super Pi is software that was designed for overclocking performance testing, it allows to test floating decimal point and mathematics performances of a processor. The test consists in calculating the part PI value with the CPU, the number being infinite.

We can select several lengths of calculations, from 16 KB to 32 MB.

We don’t normally include this software in processor reviews, but we have had a lot of requests from our audience to cover it. We are using the modified 1.5 version and are running both 1M and 32M calculations.

Yet again, the performance levels aren't even close at the same clock speed of 4.4ghz, with the Core i5 2500K miles out in front. It takes less than half the time to complete the 32M calculation, at 7 minutes and 57 seconds, compared to 17 minutes and 37 seconds.

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