Cinebench 10 doesn't see quite as drastic a performance increase as we saw in the games but still a nice way to shave down the seconds when rendering images.

Pov Ray renderer uses all cores available and the Phenom 9850 again takes down the 9600 cores easily.

PCMark 05 is a benchmark which tests general day to day use such as zipping, browsing the web, office programs, hard drive start up times, etc and gives us a clear indication of how much the TLB fix could hurt performance. Luckily though for AMD that is a thing of the past.

Valve's Map Compilation benchmark shows the time it takes to build an entire map which can be quite time exhausting for some developers. Here with the 9850 we're able to do so in just under three minutes.

Valve's particle gives an overall score with the CPU's ability to render thousands of different particles and is very multi-threaded and should be implemented more and more in future Source revisions. Here we saw an unusual but repeatable discrepancy which we repeated between the 9600 with AMD Overdrive Turbo on and off but the 9850 BE is definitely the winner.

Finally let's look at power consumption.