Phenom X4 vs. Yorkfield

[JPB]

Benchmarks here

If real, not too bad if I say so myself

 

[zsdersw]

That's not just versus Yorkfield, either.. so we're not talking about needing a $1000 chip from Intel to beat the Phenom in this instance. In this example, even the E6850 beats the Phenom.

 

[JPB]

But the point is, Is AMD finally going to be competitive again ? I for one hope so. Since the Core 2 crushed anything AMD had at the time.

And this is only one test..if its real. Other tests could be different. Wonder how they will overclock ?

 

[zsdersw]

Their competitiveness depends on the price. A native quad-core chip like Phenom on 65nm is considerably more silicon than any dual or quad-core Intel chip on 45nm.

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: JPB
Wonder how they will overclock ?

That AMD was overclocked, it said so in the article. Historically, last 2-years, AMD CPU's have much less OCing headroom. Unlikely to change.

 

[Roy2001]

Originally posted by: JPB
Benchmarks here

If real, not too bad if I say so myself

Not too bad.................. for AMD or Intel ?

 

[formulav8]

Hmm, looks like it took 1.5v to get it to 3ghz. Somewhat disappointing I guess. Hopefully the core will get better in a somewhat short period of time.


Jason

 

[Acanthus]

That is just about the most useless benchmark they couldve used.

Crysis uses 2 cores...

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
That is just about the most useless benchmark they couldve used.

Crysis uses 2 cores...

Not to mention the demo doesn't even use more then 1 core ATM (I believe this has been confirmed) and that the system is GPU limited even in the CPU benchmark... This is a TERRIBLE test to draw a conclusion from, just terrible... The reason that AMD could be lower is due to the chipset maturity and potentially the CPU -> GPU communication is buggy.

 

[Deliximus]

and look at the ram timings. OMG, terrible. Amd's architecture is more sensitive to latency on RAM than Intel's, AFAIK.

 

[A554SS1N]

All I can see is a lot of ????? characters in that link :/

 

[SickBeast]

I'm gonna call shenannigans on this benchmark as it's not multithreaded properly.

I have a question about Phenom - will it be 'snappier' than the intel offerings due to the IMC, similar to the A64?

With the new chipset/platform coming out, I have my fingers crossed that AMD can pull some rabbits out of there hat in 2 weeks...

 

[kknd1967]

if Phenom is not cheap enough, one can just forget about it now
New Cyrsis Benchmark 3G Phenom vs 3G C2D

 

[Stoneburner]

AMD has been falling on its face since the AM2 socket change. Nothing but a string of letdowns since that notorious "sidegrade."

 

[zach0624]

I saw some funky results in the new test that kknd1967 posted. I noticed that on the x4 that for ram boosts there are huge boosts in perf. some that you wouldn't normally expect for a 200mhz boost in ram for an imc. I thought that x4 are more latency sensitive. If you look at the numbers the x4 closes the gap big time with the 500mhz ram.