Having owned my Q6600 for almost two years now, I recently invested in a 955 3.2Ghz Black Edition for a dedicated server to run 2008 R2 DataCenter on for testing new products from my Technet subscription.
Had a quiet day yesterday so decided to do some benchmark testing between the two and was amazed by the results;
(Note: yes I know the clock differences are slightly different, but only marginal)
Q6600 @ (450x8)
Asus Rampage Formula
4GB OCZ 9200 DDR2 RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
AMD 3.2Ghz 955 @ 3.5Ghz (200x17.5)
Asus M4A785TD-M Evo
8GB OCZ Platinum 1600 DDR3 RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Super PI (1M test)
Q6600 15sec
955 19sec
Sandra Utils Lite (Processor Arithmetic)
Q6600
Aggregate Arithmatic Performance 54.3GOPS
Dhrystone ALU 66.27 GIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 42.33 GFLOPS
955
Aggregate Arithmatic Performance 46GOPS
Dhrystone ALU 51.1 GIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 40.73 GFLOPS
I'm hoping someone will be able to explain why there is the noticable difference here and whether there's a simple explaination ie. FSB is higher on the Intel board etc. Seeing as I was considering selling my Intel setup, I'm now ofcourse having second thoughts!
Thanks in advance.
Had a quiet day yesterday so decided to do some benchmark testing between the two and was amazed by the results;
(Note: yes I know the clock differences are slightly different, but only marginal)
Q6600 @ (450x8)
Asus Rampage Formula
4GB OCZ 9200 DDR2 RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
AMD 3.2Ghz 955 @ 3.5Ghz (200x17.5)
Asus M4A785TD-M Evo
8GB OCZ Platinum 1600 DDR3 RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Super PI (1M test)
Q6600 15sec
955 19sec
Sandra Utils Lite (Processor Arithmetic)
Q6600
Aggregate Arithmatic Performance 54.3GOPS
Dhrystone ALU 66.27 GIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 42.33 GFLOPS
955
Aggregate Arithmatic Performance 46GOPS
Dhrystone ALU 51.1 GIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 40.73 GFLOPS
I'm hoping someone will be able to explain why there is the noticable difference here and whether there's a simple explaination ie. FSB is higher on the Intel board etc. Seeing as I was considering selling my Intel setup, I'm now ofcourse having second thoughts!
Thanks in advance.