X2 vs Core Duo

The $6m Dan · 21 Mar 2006 at 09:26

The inquirer has a link to some 3D06 Benchmarks fore these 2 CPUs.
It doesn't go into too much depth, and questions such as "were the maximum overclocks used for both chips" remain unanswered, but it does indicate how much faster the X2 has to run to keep up with the Core Duo.

Inquirer

3D06 results

Thought some of you might be interested.

Defcon5 · 21 Mar 2006 at 09:44

look at the screenshot in the link of superpi, 21secs!

Reckons the cpu vcore is 2.9v too! that cant be right surley?

oweneades · 21 Mar 2006 at 11:05

3.38MHz AMD X2 faces an Intel 2.93GHz Core Duo

Well Duh! lol! (no wonder it would win if it was clocked that slow) :rolleyes:

God does no one from the inquirer check their posts before putting them up on the website

Pulseammo · 21 Mar 2006 at 11:38

oweneades said:
3.38MHz AMD X2 faces an Intel 2.93GHz Core Duo

Well Duh! lol! (no wonder it would win if it was clocked that slow)

God does no one from the inquirer check their posts before putting them up on the website

Uh? The FX60 is clocked at 2.6Ghz default or is the point that you can overclock it way higher than 3.4Ghz?

oweneades · 21 Mar 2006 at 11:50

Pulseammo said:
Uh? The FX60 is clocked at 2.6Ghz default or is the point that you can overclock it way higher than 3.4Ghz?

I know that, my point was I was making a joke, The inquirer has stated in their title that the FX60 was running at 3.38MHZ not GHZ.

Amp34 · 21 Mar 2006 at 13:13

So it seems its been turned round then, AMD now have the higher clock speeds and intel have the lower ones. Although from the 3dmark cpu score the AMD still wins, by quite a margin it seems. Was the intel at stock? And i assume if they had hyperthreading on it would have crucified the amd.

King_Boru · 21 Mar 2006 at 13:25

Amp34 said:
So it seems its been turned round then, AMD now have the higher clock speeds and intel have the lower ones. Although from the 3dmark cpu score the AMD still wins, by quite a margin it seems. Was the intel at stock? And i assume if they had hyperthreading on it would have crucified the amd.

well no it has not been turned around, Intel have just realised that having a billion mhz's isnt the way forward. AMD have known this for years.....

The $6m Dan · 21 Mar 2006 at 14:24

I thought the scores were pretty close actually, only a few points here and there.

Amp34 · 21 Mar 2006 at 14:24

Sorry what i meant was that intel now have an architecture that needs less clock speed for the same overall speed than AMD.Exactly the opposite of the athlon and P4 chips. I didnt mean AMD are now trying to get higher clockspeeds and intel lower.

Amp34 · 21 Mar 2006 at 14:27

The $6m Dan said:
I thought the scores were pretty close actually, only a few points here and there.

There was a difference of 100 in the cpu score which is the one that really counts. I can get 100 extra by clocking my x2 by 100mhz so there is really 300mhz in it (clock speed)

NathanE · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:06

King_Boru said:
well no it has not been turned around, Intel have just realised that having a billion mhz's isnt the way forward. AMD have known this for years.....

NetBurst isn't Intel's only processor design in history, ya' know?

stigggeh · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:07

Defcon5 said:
look at the screenshot in the link of superpi, 21secs!

Reckons the cpu vcore is 2.9v too! that cant be right surley?

thats a cpuz bug apparently? look at the 3ghz super pi 19.813 :eek:

and this is only a yonah ....... i cant wait for conroe + a decent OC'ing board

maddness · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:08

That FX60 is on Phase and the Yonah on air

FreeStream · 21 Mar 2006 at 16:58

Thats an amazing chip,

If I can get one for £300 and a decent mobo that supports DDR and PCi-E im sold!

Corasik · 21 Mar 2006 at 17:03

Best of all, Yohan is a 'crippled' laptop processor with low power requirements, and a slow FSB just 166Mhz Quad pumped to 667

Or to be more clear, its a 'fantastic' laptop processor, but compared to the full features of Conroe its a cripple

Conroe has a 266mhz Quad pumped to 1066 FSB, 64bit extensions, and allowed to draw up to 65W of power. Even better, for the price of an FX60, you will probably be not to far away from buying a 3+ghz Conroe Extreme which has a 333mhz Quad pumped fsb

Will be nice to know just how far a 'low end' conroe can be pushed.

stigggeh · 21 Mar 2006 at 17:04

Concorde Rules said:
Thats an amazing chip,

If I can get one for £300 and a decent mobo that supports DDR and PCi-E im sold!

yep i was going to quote a guy at XS that said, this performance at 1/3 of the price of an FX60.........

personally I am missing yonah out, waiting for conroe in the hope of better boards. before the big leap to dual core + pci-e

Amp34 · 21 Mar 2006 at 17:53

So when are these chips coming out? They do look very interesting especially if they are half the price of the fx60.

Duke · 21 Mar 2006 at 18:40

Very nice

King_Boru · 21 Mar 2006 at 18:40

NathanE said:
NetBurst isn't Intel's only processor design in history, ya' know?

Yes i know, I was refering to their current lineup not on the past.

NickK · 21 Mar 2006 at 20:23

I can't see some of the photos due to bandwitdth restrictions.

I haven't seen the full specification and configuration setup for each system. Benchmarks are all good - as long as they're in context.