AnandTech, How About a AMD X2 vs 840EE Multitasking Shootout?

[porkster]

AnandTech, How About a AMD X2 vs 840EE Multitasking Shootout?

You may have already touched the sidelines of the X2's multitasking but how about a real test of multitasking grunt for both of the top level desktop CPU's, from AMD and Intel.

The reason I ask for this test is that your past benchmark mainly relied on the loading and closing of a program's execution request, not a real running of threads. Most know that load and closing programs is mainly a demand on the file system and memory movement, not the CPU's computation...

So please can we have a new showdown of the top end CPU beasts from AMD and Intel?

Note:

* It would be good to use general application in a bench test, not games like Doom3 that are proprietary toward AMD(+nvidia) or others that maybe tailored for Intel.

* Is AnandTech at the level to reveal power consumption values for tests?

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[RichUK]

Oooo .. is Porkster trying to start another flame thread ... you must realise that your name has been tainted now ..

 

[Lonyo]

LOL @ one of your notes.
Err, Doom 3 performs better on the AMD64 because, well, it's got a better architecture when it comes to gaming.
The reason P4's are slow is not because it's optimised for AMD, but because P4's/PD's suck at games.
The Dothan (Banias architecture) is very good for gaming, possibly better than the AMD64, clock for clock.

Any site which does anything is going to get a hard time from uninformed people such as you who believe certain applications are optimised for one CPU or the other, whereas infact the architecture is just better suited to some tasks than others.
(Dothan is made by Intel, so it's not an AMD vs Intel thing, it's a P4 sucking at games thing)

 

[HDTVMan]

Im still waiting for a Venice to Sandiego core comparison at same clock speed and overclock ability of the two just to determine the extra cache influence.

 

[BitByBit]

Considering the only difference between the two is the L2 size, I'd imagine that the difference between them would be similar to the difference between a Newcastle and a Clawhammer at the same clock.
(A Newcastle is just a cut-down Clawhammer, isn't it?)

Link.

It's possible that 939 Athlons don't benefit from the extra cache as much as 754 athlons, however, due to the extra memory bandwidth.

 

[HDTVMan]

Your right I didnt think of that thanks. I will check it out.