Intel Kentsfield trounces AMD Quad FX

jmke · 30th November 2006, 08:19

Test scores reveal that Quad FX manages to achieve equal performance to Core 2 Extreme QX6700 in SiSoft Sandra 2007 and PCMark05 and narrowly edged it in memory tests: both L1, L2 and system memory latency are better on QuadFX than on Kentsfield, but that's nothing new.

However, taking a look into media encoding shows that QuadFather just gets crushed by Kentsfield, especially in MPEG-2 8Mbit reproduction. But the worst result for AMD is a look into power consumption and performance per watt. AMD system consumes far more power than Intel, sometimes even double that Kentsfield setup.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36050

30th November 2006, 08:31

AMD had to go very agressive on the pricing, I doubt it's that easy to get 4 90nm cores with 1 MB running 3 GHz and sell it for 1000$.

jmke · 30th November 2006, 08:35

I still don't want one, overclocking a dual cpu system will prove harder than single CPU systems; and without any useful apps needed more than 1 core to work fluently... there's no point in spending $$$

30th November 2006, 09:30

me neither but there are plenty of people with too much money

30th November 2006, 08:19	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Intel Kentsfield trounces AMD Quad FX Test scores reveal that Quad FX manages to achieve equal performance to Core 2 Extreme QX6700 in SiSoft Sandra 2007 and PCMark05 and narrowly edged it in memory tests: both L1, L2 and system memory latency are better on QuadFX than on Kentsfield, but that's nothing new. However, taking a look into media encoding shows that QuadFather just gets crushed by Kentsfield, especially in MPEG-2 8Mbit reproduction. But the worst result for AMD is a look into power consumption and performance per watt. AMD system consumes far more power than Intel, sometimes even double that Kentsfield setup. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36050 __________________

30th November 2006, 08:35	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	I still don't want one, overclocking a dual cpu system will prove harder than single CPU systems; and without any useful apps needed more than 1 core to work fluently... there's no point in spending $$$ __________________

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30th November 2006, 08:31	#2
Rutar Posts: n/a	AMD had to go very agressive on the pricing, I doubt it's that easy to get 4 90nm cores with 1 MB running 3 GHz and sell it for 1000$.

30th November 2006, 09:30	#4
Rutar Posts: n/a	me neither but there are plenty of people with too much money