Intel's Conroe 2.66GHz beats an Athlon 64 FX-60 overclocked to 2.8GHz!

[crazyswede]

Of course the benchmarks where controlled by Intel, but it does look hopeful. However, it is still 6 months before it is released and then we will see how AMD's new stuff performs. Then I will make up my mind about which way to go for my new system if I can last that long

Intel is very excited about their new Core architecture, especially with Conroe on the desktop. It's not really news to anyone that Intel hasn't had the desktop performance crown for years now; their Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors run hotter and offer competitive or lower performance than their AMD competitors. With Conroe, Intel hopes to change all of that.

Intel setup two identical systems: in one corner, an Athlon 64 FX-60 overclocked to 2.8GHz running on a DFI RD480 motherboard. And in the other corner, a Conroe running at 2.66GHz on an Intel 975X motherboard.

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2713


What do you think?

 

[crazyswede]

Yeah... its nice to see that they are making an effort.

I am really interested to see what AMD will do.

Does it have 4MB cache?