Take a look on frequency info. Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6400:266X8=>2133Mhz AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+:200X13=>2600Mhz (Motherboard small frequency difference with 2612MHz ) Memory BIOS Setup will all be DDRII 800 CL3 3-3-9 AM2 processors have some ratio divide issue, so the real frequency is DDRII 746 CL3 3-3-9 1T Besides the platform with different motherboard and chipsets, rest of the components is the same. I use NVIDIA chipset on both side, that will be more similar with fair competition. But still have little difference between Intel nForce6 and AMD nForce4, since the nForce6 is newest version. PCMARK2005 Intel AMD CPU Source Intel:5479 AMD:5334 CrystalMark Intel AMD ALU Intel:18969 AMD:19468 FPU Intel:22702 AMD:22490 CINEBENCH 9.5 Intel AMD 1 CPU Intel:353 AMD:385 2 CPU Intel:658 AMD:722 The best winning test program from Intel side must be SUPER PI. Intel AMD Intel:22m 30.921s AMD:29m 57.312s EVEREST test about memory and cache performance. Intel AMD Memory Intel:7680/4861/5426 MB/s 58.6ns AMD:8005/7271/6130 MB/s 47.1ns AMD is strong on memory bandwidth performance, since the frequency is only DDRII 746, but all memory test results are better then Intel with DDRII 800 with same latency. CPU Mark Intel:298 AMD:303 |
3DMARK2006 Intel AMD CPU Source Intel:1843 AMD:1924 TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress Intel AMD Intel:01:14.51 AMD:01:17:32 Here are my personal opinions: First of all, I was mentioned before, the K8/AM2 architecture performance gape is about 400MHz higher to equal compares with Intel C2D. Second, because the difference architecture, the best cache performance rate is about 512K, C2D is about 2MB, more cache will only have less percentage enhance. Let’s recall our memories to last generation, P4 3G V.S. K8 3000+ competition on 200USD segment, but P4 3G is worse then K8 1.8G, the overclock performance is also less then K8 overclock improvement. Now the situation is different. AMD is very cleaver in these months with great price strategy, If user can have 400MHz more AM2 dual core products with better price , then AMD will have more advantage to beat Intel C2D. But Intel C2D got the advantage on overclock range and performance, normally can easy overclock up to 3.4G~3.8G limited. AM2 just lead in with 65nm design, extreme frequency is about 3.1G, if the limited can up to 3.3GHz higher, that will help to deduce the performance and overclock gape. AMD comes with lower processor and motherboard price, that’s the advantage, But for long term business, they have to enhance the frequency limited and new architecture, that’s the solution to fight back the behind situation now. Any way, the hard competition will benefit all end users to have lower price and higher performance. About the extreme overclock, already had many reviews to know on internet, this time we take a look on normal user situation with same price segment. Let’s expect next wave price/performance competition between Intel and AMD. |
Intel still got a nice lead over AMD with C2D, and with price drop of E4300 it will widen I think. |
The bottom line question is "What if AM2 can be overlocked at the same level as C2D?". The answer is "no" as we all know. However, for normal users who buy from HP, Dell, eMachine and Lenovo may find AM2 no worst than Intel C2D, while pricing becomes the main criteria in which to pick. |
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