Brigs Lab's

After try­ing “spi­der” plat­form con­sist­ing of Phe­nom proces­sor, 790FX moth­er­board and HD3800 series graph­ics card, AMD decides to bring out Spider’s suc­ces­sor -”Dragon”. “Dragon” includes Phe­nom II proces­sor, 790 series moth­er­board and HD4800 series card.

Phe­nom II proces­sor, which is improved from Phe­nom, its inte­grated cache increases from pre­vi­ous 4MB to 8M, and the Phe­nom II 940 is equipped with as high as 3GHz fre­quency, sup­port­ing DDR3-1333 (940÷920 with high­est fre­quency only sup­ports DDR2 mem­ory). Com­pared with “Spi­der” plat­form, 790 series moth­er­board fea­tures SB750 South­bridge chip. It’s believed moth­er­board man­u­fac­tur­ers will later launch new items using DDR3 memory.

Accord­ing to AMD’s lat­est roadmap, besides bring­ing for­ward 3 main ele­ments of “Dragon”, it also pro­vided a test result. They used the same DDR2-800 mem­ory, Sea­gate 7200.10 500G HD and Win­dows Vista64 SP1 OS. In the two plat­forms run by Phe­nom 9950 proces­sor (2.6GHz) and Phe­nom II 940 proces­sor (3GHz), it’s obvi­ously seen that “Dragon” has beaten the for­mer one totally. Its gam­ing per­for­mance even exceeded by over 140%.

It’s not indi­cated the same cards were used, so prob­a­bly it’s just a trick AMD plays. But from the pro­duc­tiv­ity bench which less relies on card and mul­ti­me­dia video cod­ing abil­ity (the improve­ment is over 20%), new-generation “Dragon” sur­passes “Spi­der” undoubtedly.