Introducing the New Phenom II 980 BE vs. Core i7-920 – value meets performance again

Vantage

Vantage is Futuremark’s DX10 test. It is really useful for tracking changes in a single system – especially driver changes. There are two mini-game tests, Jane Nash and Calico and also two CPU tests, but we are still focusing on the graphics performance. Here is a scene from Vantage’s second mini-game.

Let’s go right to the graphs and first check the basic tests with the default benchmark scores:

We note the rankings. Unfortunately, scores are completely meaningless when they are presented this way.

For our purposes here, Vantage is a meaningless test although they do attempt to compare one CPU’s performance to another by using two short synthetic tests.  It does prove however, that the two Phenom II X4s give identical performance at the same clock speeds.   Let’s move on to the latest Futuremark benchmark, 3DMark11 which is DX11 only.