Intel to release dual-core Celeron E1000 on January 20

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: harpoon84
It's actually not that bad a performer, despite the lack of cache. Clock for clock, it is actually faster than K8, except for gaming where it falls slightly behind. You can see a 3GHz Celeron (single core) outpacing a 3.16GHz FX-57 at Xtremesystems: http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=148382

http://legionhardware.com/document.php?id=663

Here, you can see a 2GHz Celeron 440 (basically single core version of the upcoming DC Celerons) comprehensively beating a 2GHz Sempron 3600+ in CPU benchmarks, and coming very close in gaming. The Sempron would roughly be equal to a X2 3600+ in single threaded performance, so I suspect the Celerons will be very competitive with the low end X2 4000+ / 4200+, perhaps with the exception of gaming where the X2 should have a slight edge.

Keep in mind that the current single-core Celeron 420/430/440 are basically 1/2 of the e21x0 lineup: they have 512kb cache feeding a single core. However, the new dual-core Celerons are going to have 512kb cache feeding both cores, so you shouldn't really compare the performance directly.

 

[piasabird]

I never buy new games. Just buy 2 year old games. Come to think of it You got me. I am not saying that Celerons are the fastest processors out there. Still dont underestimate them. As far as games go, show me the benchmarks. Dont see many Celron Benchmarks comparing their results to say a Core 2 Quad. Maybe I will put this to the test when it comes out. Buy Son a new Quad, buy myself new celeron, try game with both.

What the world needs is more comparisons of Celerons. I still think AMD quit making the XP processors too soon.

I think the last new PC Game I bought was PC version of Halo and maybe AOE 2 or something like that. Managed to play them on a Radeon 9000. Halo was pushing it a bit. Most new games are console games for me.

Wonder if Toms Hardware will Benchmark a core 2 Celeron? Maybe they will just for fun. I think they did for the Asus P5 motherboard with HDMI Integrated chipset GMA 3500X? Managed to get about 4 frames a second. Must be fun trying to play a game like that. I might have been at some other site where they did that.

FFXII is pretty good.

 

[harpoon84]

Originally posted by: Denithor
Keep in mind that the current single-core Celeron 420/430/440 are basically 1/2 of the e21x0 lineup: they have 512kb cache feeding a single core. However, the new dual-core Celerons are going to have 512kb cache feeding both cores, so you shouldn't really compare the performance directly.

Ah yes, good point! I thought it was 512KB per core.

In such a case, the dual core Celeron should still have the same performance in single threaded performance (since the L2 cache should be shared) but multithreading performance will suffer.

Anyhow, should be interesting to see how these perform. I've always had a soft spot for Celerons because my first super overclockable CPU was a 300A@464MHz... those were the days.