Legit Reviews

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20051121/index.html

Thought this was a very good resource. I think everyone should check this out as it contains performance and manufacturing details on prettymuch every processor intel and AMD has released up until this point (November 2005).

ENJOY!

Nice! No mention of Opteron or Xeon though.

yeah, really nice....and quite interesting how, in a couple of benches, the X2 can beat out an EE Smithfield at a much higher frequency...interesting indeed.....

what I also find extremely funny (pardon the pun, lol) is that a double-pumped AMD 64 setup can trump a quad-pumped Pentium...guess the on-chip memory controller does a hell of a lot of good for AMD (latency is everything I guess).

nah, latency isn't everything:
http://techreport.com/etc/2005q4/mem-la ... dex.x?pg=1

It's prettymuch mostly just attributed the architectural differences of the chip. The AMD is just that much more efficient!

still, it does make one marvel at it, especially one who had been brainwashed by the Big Blue Whore in the past, to play the MHz Game with customers....slowly the shackles of brainwashing and ignorance are being released, lol

It can't be the mother of all CPU charts if it leaves out Opterons and Xeons, but it's good...An Athlon beating a higher-clocked Pentium is old news, this happens all the time.

killswitch83 wrote:yeah, really nice....and quite interesting how, in a couple of benches, the X2 can beat out an EE Smithfield at a much higher frequency...interesting indeed.....

The EE Smithfield is dual core with hyperthreading (4 cores, 2 real and 2 virtual)....hyperthreading with intel only means you can encode video etc. and play a DVD at the same time (which is still cool).... It's nothing compaired to real dual core....so the EE chip is really just a dual core chip....Infact hyperthreading can decrease performance in some cases, and seems to reduce it more with dual core! -> Great for heavy cpu work though....

I suppose.........AMD pwns Intel!!!