AMD 3500+ Mid-Range CPU - AM2 vs S939 Comparison

CPU by piotke @ 2006-05-30

Last week AMD launched their new AM2 platform, we take a look at what performance difference you can expect at the mid-range side of things, with the help of local computer shop Forcom we compared two AMD 3500+ systems, one based on AM2 one on Socket 939.

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PhotoShop Benchmark

Photoshop Script Benchmark Standoff

Driverheaven made this pretty nifty PhotoShop Benchmark which is basically a collection of actions performed on an image and the time measured for each operation. In this benchmark you’ll notice a nice summary of the whole performance difference affair between S939 and AM2, it’s nothing too noticeable and actually not even worth mentioning. But we need proof before we can make these statements of course.

So introducing the only video comparison of S939 vs AM2 in this review for the Photoshop Benchmark, the detailed numbers can be found in the chart below the movie. 12 different filters are applied, at the end of the movie you see a “score” of the amount of tests “won” by each system configuration.


Madshrimps (c)


The largest difference was ~3 seconds in favor of the socket 939 system, not too bad, overall the AM2 is not really trailing.

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