YugaTech | PC Labs

AMD sent us several of their new Phenom II processors to check out. This one is the AMD Phenom II 720 X3 Black Edition and is rated at 2.8GHz. Check out our results below.

Here’s a screen shot of the CPUID:

We assembled the test rig as follows:
AMD Phenom II 720 X3 @ 2.8GHz
Kingston 2GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
MSI K9A2VM-F V2 
Asus ENGTX275 GDDR3
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

Here’s a bar graph of SuperPi 16M:

We also ran it under PCMark Vantage benchmark and got the following results:

PCMarkSuite: 4178 PCMarks
Gaming Suite: 4300
Productivity Suite: 4198

With SiSoft Sandra, benchmark results are compared to 4 other CPUs is the same range:

An intel Core 2 Duo E8300 & E8400, AMD Phenom 8850 Triple Core and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000. 

The AMD Phenom II X4 720 2.8GHz has a suggested retail price of Php7,650 at PC Hub.

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