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| | (Post a comment) » Intel's Core 2 Extreme/Duo ProcessorsToday's the day media outlets such as us are finally able to unveil all the details on Intel's next-generation Core 2 processors. The new chips are built on Intel's brand new Conroe CPU core, boasting more performance thanks to several improvements. In this article we go over what's changed in the new CPUs, discuss pricing, and evaluate performance. Inside you'll find benchmark numbers for both single-GPU and multi-GPU setups with ATI CrossFire. Do you really need a Core 2 processor to drive two X1900 XTX cards at 2048x1536? Find out in this article! (Hint: You won't want to skip the flight sim benches in this article) |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous (-) Jul 19, 2006 - 10:08 am | Edited on Jul 19, 2006 - 10:10 am
| » Interesting
Got thrown in the wrong topic...» Login to reply to this |
 trikats (62)  Jul 15, 2006 - 01:36 pm
| | I just checked out some of the bar graphs and the conclusion. Too bad there wasn't an overclocking page, but I already read several articles on these new Intel Core 2 processors. Atleast my Opteron 165 won't perform that badly in games so I will wait for AMD's or Intel's next big evolution. Hopefully by then DX10 graphic cards and the next gen CPUs will be cheap enough to warrant another computer upgrade. » Login to reply to this |
deimos47 (434)  Jul 15, 2006 - 12:03 pm
| It was 1999. Hot of the heals of their very successful P2 "Deschutes", Intel tried to charm the world with their internet optimized P3. And as fate would have it, Athlon debuted and crashed their party.
7 years (1999-2006) is a very very long time for a microarchitecture to be leading the market. Certainly blew away the wildest expectations. Its quite a shame that just as AMD gets FAB36 up and running, and production silicon from Chartered, Intel crashes in.
But, despite Conroe's clear win, I still think Athlon has room for improvement. Particularly, in the key memory subsystem.
- S754 to S939 doubling of memory bandwidth (and again with AM2) saw minimal performance advantage. Clearly the bandwidth is there, but not being used.
- Conroe has more better and smarter prefetchers. Even using lowly DDR2-667, it beats the AM2 systems, even in typical bandwidth limited tests.
- AMD is at a unique position to leverage their SOI technology towards cache: Z-ram. Its seems ridiculous that in today's day and age, AMD is shifting their lineup to the petty 512KB L2 cache models.
By following in Conroe's footsteps of working smarter and not just harder, if AMD works quickly and diligently, they may be able to make up much of the lost ground.» Login to reply to this
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 Blood1 (31) Jul 15, 2006 - 08:35 am
| » FS: Please Add Cost of System Setup!! $$$
Hi FS, could you please add a total COST for the entire system setup you test with from now on?
It would be nice just to see if I want this kind of performance how much it would cost when reading this article.
Thanks and great article. Great to see Intel took top place now. Waiting for AMD's 4x4 response...
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