AMD and Intel Current Channel Lineup
I just wanted to look at Newegg, and look at the product stack available today.
$35.00 - AMD Sempron LE-1100 Sparta 1.9GHz
$38.00 - Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L 1.6GHz
$39.99 - AMD Sempron LE-1150 Sparta 2.0GHz
$42.99 - AMD Athlon 64 LE-1600 2.2GHz
$49.99 - AMD Sempron LE-1200 Sparta 2.1GHz
$49.99 - AMD Athlon 64 LE-1620 2.4GHz
$51.99 - Intel Celeron 430 Conroe-L 1.8GHz
$55.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0GHz
$59.99 - AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.6GHz
$59.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2.2GHz
$61.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz
$65.00 - Intel Celeron 440 Conroe-L 2.0GHz
This first bucket clearly contains the value line processors. Intel only competes here with Celeron 400 series parts, based on a single Conroe core with 512KB of L2 cache. Compared to similarly priced AMD processors, I think Intel's position here is very weak. They really need to start offering those dual core Celerons, if nothing else, then to at least compete with those dual core parts that AMD has listed at fire sale prices. It's amazing that they are still selling 90nm Windsor cores at these prices. I guess it's either sell at a loss, or write off a charge. For now, this appears to be the market where AMD will brag about share gains and record volumes....
$73.99 - Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale 1.6GHz
$74.00 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Brisbane 2.2GHz
$82.99 - Intel Pentium E2160 Allendale 1.8GHz
$84.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Brisbane 2.3GHz
$89.99 - AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 Brisbane 2.1GHz (45W)
$89.99 - Intel Pentium E2180 Allendale 2.0GHz
$95.00 - Intel Pentium E2200 Allendale 2.2GHz
$99.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane 2.5GHz
$99.99 - AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 Brisbane 2.3GHz (45W)
$119.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Brisbane 2.7GHz
$119.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2.6GHz
Intel is somewhat stronger in this segment, at least as far as price/performance goes. I would expect a 2.2GHz Allendale core to perform nicely against a 2.5GHz Brisbane, for example. However, there is a rather large gap between the $95 price point, and the $120 price point where you will not find any Intel processors, and AMD seems to be taking advantage of this. I hope to see Intel strengthen their position here with upcoming price moves. I know that Intel is supposed to have a Core 2 4000 series part in the $115 range, but perhaps popularity has caused Newegg to charge higher prices on it. Intel needs to work on these issues by supplying more of these parts to the market. Hopefully, 45nm production will help.
$127.99 - Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 Allendale 2.2GHz
$129.99 - Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale 1.8GHz
$134.99 - Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Allendale 2.0GHz
$139.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Windsor 2.8GHz
$149.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz
$149.99 - Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 Allendale 2.4GHz
$169.99 - Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe 2.33GHz
$179.99 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz
$189.99 - Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz
Intel is fairly uncontested here. These last few Windsor parts are far from competitive, due to the much higher power dissipation and uncompetitive 90nm process. And you can see that the overclocking headroom on the lower bin Allendale parts is causing a very strange price inversion here. Either way, I think Intel will own this price range this quarter and next, especially with upcoming Wolfdale parts.
$239.99 - AMD Phenom 9500 Agena 2.2GHz
$260.00 - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz
$275.99 - AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz
$279.99 - Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz
$539.99 - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 Kentsfield 2.66GHz
$989.99 - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Kentsfield 3.0GHz
$1,145.00 - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield 3.0GHz
AMD finally has an entry into the elite pricing segment, but it's weak, and the broken Agena cores have fallen to the bottom of this price range. As Intel ramps Yorkfield, I expect Intel to fully keep AMD out of this segment.
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