Phenom II X4 970 and Phenom II X6 1075T CPU Review

Photoshop CS4

The best way to measure performance is by using real programs. The problem, though, is creating a methodology using real software that provides accurate results. For Photoshop CS4, there is a methodology created by the folks at GamingHeaven that is very accurate. Their script applies a series of 15 filters to a sample image, and we wrote down the time taken for each filter to run. At the end, we have the results for each individual filter and we simply added them up to have the total time taken to run the 15 filters from the GamingHeaven batch. The results below are given in seconds, so the lower the number the better.

On Photoshop CS4, the Phenom II X4 970 and Phenom II X4 965 achieved the same performance level, with the new Phenom II X4 970 being 4% faster than the Core i5-750. The Phenom II X6 1090T was only 4% faster than the new Phenom II X6 1075T, which achieved the same performance level of the Core i5-750.