AMD Six core Benchmarks

[Azuse05]

And it only cost double!

 

[Trunks9486]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2775

Intel processors are consistently lower sized to comparable AMD ones. Intel fabrication plants are the best by far.

Is the screenshot to scale? maybe they are not that good with producing the cache and end up with higher die sizes.

 

[mmj_uk]

Gaming performance on the PII X4 is the same as on the i7 (better in some games worse in others).

What benchmarks don't show though is that CPU usage in games will be higher on the Phenom due to it being slower, if games ever start to max out all the cores Intel will be faster due to the available headroom.

 

[eddyc]

i7 is faster in any game at the same clocks and escpecially in the cpu intensive ones

At stock the Phenom II is actually better in gaming (see conclusion here)

Overclocked the i7 is better in some games and worse in others - although in ones where it is better it is better by a bigger margin (see here)

As Tomshardware points out - spend the money you save by getting the phenom on a better graphics card / another for crossfire and the AMD system will crush the i7.

What benchmarks don't show though is that CPU usage in games will be higher on the Phenom due to it being slower, if games ever start to max out all the cores Intel will be faster due to the available headroom.

I guess this is where the X6 steps in...

But having said all of that, outside of gaming the i7 is going to poon the phenom II. It must be at least 50% faster in transcoding etc.

 

[lsg1r]

from that benchmark it looks promising, I've been wanting to upgrade my sff (waiting on fermi based quadros) and temps keep popping up in my head and in threads so if I can get the x6 for the same or less and it runs cooler then I'll be happy going amd again, espcially if 3ds max rendering is comparable ratio's to the one above

But then I'll wait for the full 3ds max benchies to come in to see how well it really does perform for MY needs

 

[Pendu]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2775

Intel processors are consistently lower sized to comparable AMD ones. Intel fabrication plants are the best by far.

Is the screenshot to scale? maybe they are not that good with producing the cache and end up with higher die sizes.

Die size yes Intel is smaller, but actual individual core size, AMD is much smaller, Intel has always had the advantage of cache density.

 

[Trunks9486]

I guess, but isnt die size what really matters in the end for costs? I hope that Bulldozer is really good. And i hope that Global Foundries become successful, we really need someone who can compete with Intel on the manufacturing scale and technology.

 

[Pendu]

I guess, but isnt die size what really matters in the end for costs? I hope that Bulldozer is really good. And i hope that Global Foundries become successful, we really need someone who can compete with Intel on the manufacturing scale and technology.

Aye, it's a shame AMD can't densely pack their caches, you'd think they could get near to intels level by now. They wouldn't have to have such small actual cores compared to Intels.

 

[chaosquall]

Pretty disappointing - safe to say Intel's flagship won't be dropping price anytime soon.

Single threaded the X6 takes twice the time to SuperPI 1M compared with my i7, albeit with a small 400mhz advantage.

And multi-threaded I'm about 1000 Vantage CPU marks ahead, with two less cores!

yes the intel may be better but compare the prices...

 

[kieves1]

yes the intel may be better but compare the prices...

Exactly.People seem to think this chip will be on par with the 980x at only 25% of the cost.Not going to happen.