Here is our AMD test system.

Here is our Intel test system for Penryn.

Our test OS was Windows Vista 64-bit SP1. ATI Catalyst drivers were the latest from AMD at version 9.4. V-sync was disabled for all benchmarks as well as C1E and Cool 'n Quiet.

We'll start with UT3 which is the most popular graphics engine on the market and supports four cores. The Phenom 995 shows pretty much where we expect it improvement over the 940.

Crysis only supports two cores and as such the Phenom II 720 beats the Phenom II 810 in addition to the Q8200. Core i7 also sees no real boost with the Phenom II 955 basically performing exactly the same as the more expensive platform.

3DMark Vantage is dominated by the i7 but this is a synthetic score. The Phenom II also blows away the Penryn Intel quad core.