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[Snowrider2]

I love seeing a processor I bought ~ a year ago (an E6700) still trouncing today's AMD product line up! :)

Snow

[wbmw]

Intel/AMD Overall Performance Index

http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/385/core-se-decline-en-pentium-et-celeron/page15.php

My last post on this review. I wanted to make sure people had a chance to see this last summary graph. My one complaint is that the reviewers didn't really use a lot of multithreaded apps, so that tended to make the quad core parts look pretty mediocre. Overall, it's a good summary.

I think it's surprising to see the upcoming Allendale processor E4500 (2.2GHz) perform about equivalent to a 2.8GHz AMD dual core (they used the FX-62 rather than the 5600+, but the two are equivalent). Notice some of the other close comparisons:

 
 AMD 6000+ (3.0GHz) <= Intel E6600 (2.4GHz) <- E6550 should be similar @ $163, compared to AMD @ $178 
 AMD FX-62 (2.8GHz) ~= Intel E4500 (2.2GHz) <- Shocking!  Soon a $133 part, compared to AMD @ $157 
 AMD 5000+ (2.6GHz) <= Intel E4400 (2.0GHz) <- Will soon be a $113 part, compared to AMD @ $125 
 AMD 4400+ (2.3GHz) ~= Intel E2160 (1.8GHz) <- Only $84 part, compared to AMD @ $94 
 AMD 3800+ (2.0GHz) ~= Intel E2140 (1.6GHz) <- Only $74, same price as AMD 4000+ 
 Sempron 3800+ (2.2GHz) ~= Celeron 430 (1.8GHz) 
 Sempron 3600+ (2.0GHz) ~= Celeron 420 (1.6GHz)

The next round of Intel price cuts are going to be very painful for AMD. Also, rather amusing:

Celeron 356 (3.33GHz) ~= Celeron 420 (1.6GHz) :-)

Lastly, note that the X6800 (close to the E6850) is 26% ahead of AMD's fastest 3.0GHz part. How much IPC is K10 architecture supposed to deliver, and what are the chances of it hitting 3.0GHz...? :-)