Over 30000 points with a K10 processor
The K10 acted as the power of a horse kick to the CrossFire HD 2900 system associated with it.
We’re still in Leipzig, where Inquirer staff tried at AMD officials until they could take a closer look at the CrossFire HD system with K10 processor. If that’s already the case, they’ve run a couple of tests, but unfortunately they can’t provide pictures, as much of the crew’s stuff was stolen during the show.
The test configuration thus included an unknown quad-core K10 processor, an AMD RD790 motherboard, into which two HD 2900 XT cards were packed. 4 GB of memory was allocated to the system, however, due to 32-bit Vista, only 3,24 GB became available. Adequate power supply was provided by one of OCZ’s masterpieces.
First, 3DMark06 was launched, which gave 2,5 points with the 512GHz proci and two 23768MB cards. This is already a nice result, but when the processor clock was raised to 3 GHz, the real surprise came. The end result 30031 point became! Although the two HD cards were minimally pulled - 830/900 MHz - they used the 7.7 Catalyst drive for disappointing performance.
The shock may have been part of the Everest memory test. It has already become clear with the Athlons that we can get fairly high read and write values with the built-in memory controller. Well, Phenom puts it on with another shovel, the new GB, which seems so unattainable so far, is easily brought by the new processor, and when using 10 modules, the 1066 GB / second can be achieved.
Although the above results are not very official, they are by no means bad for a start. It looks like AMD has really pulled itself together and the K10 will sound bigger than some expected.
