Intel Conroe OWNS AMD X2 4800+

[Incinerate_IV]

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2713

All I can is... WOW *drools*

Looks like AMD got a lot of catching up to do

EDIT: I just noticed its not the 4800+ , its a FX-60 at 2.8 GHZ!!!

I think this image says it all:

[Lee1026]

Okay, so there is a 20-30% boost. But Conroe is still on the way, and once AMD works out the socket M2, then things may change back. In any case, Semprons still beats celerons, so I will remain on the green side of the fence.

[Incinerate_IV]

Not really, the performance of the AM2 is pretty dissappointing. My next build was going to be a dual-core AM2 processor, but now I changed my mind I think I can wait 6 months for conroe.

Read this article about the AM2:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/..._am2_platform/

[Lee1026]

If you will notice, they were still running on DDR 2 400, what do you expect? But if they can get DDR 2 800 running......

[Incinerate_IV]

They are runnin DDR2-667, the socket 939 processor they are comparing to is running DDR400 at 2-2-2. But do you realize how expensive DDR2-800 is? Compared to a DDR-400 memory running at 2-2-2-5, DDR2-800 cost $60+ dollars, and the difference betwee DDR2-667 and DDR2-800 isn't that big, so socket AM2 isn't going to get that much of a performance boost from DDR2-800.

[Lee1026]

The bug in the CPU prevent them from running anything faster then DDR 2 400. It was a problem with the CPU, not the ram.

[napoleonic]

actually AM2 offers NOTHING!
Intel will win this time, at least until K8L comes out but that is still 1 year (1st H 2007)

Conroe looks very solid, fast and low watt, real killer

[OTZ]

What's the price difference?

[Incinerate_IV]

I think AM2 is more designed for future AMD processors than for current Athlon processors, since the performance increase really isn't that much. And, hopefully, Intel will make those Conroe processors affordable. I can't wait to see the 3 ghz Extreme Edition Conroe, since a 2.6 ghz one already beat a 2.8 ghz FX. I'm also wondering about the overclockability Since the 65nm Pentium D OCs so well, I hope Conroe will be the same

[Lumburg]

The AMD system used 1GB of DDR400 running at 2-2-2/1T timings, while the Intel system used 1GB of DDR2-667 running at 4-4-4. Both systems had a pair of Radeon X1900 XTs running in CrossFire and as far as we could tell, the drivers and the rest of the system setup was identical.

droolz .

impressive on intel's part too.

[PyrrhusIV]

Would you honestly notive the difference? probably not. I am extremely happy with my AMD 4800.

[Aristocrat]

If all I did was benchmark and never play games then yes I would notice the difference, would I care though?

AMD all the way (I built this computer on an AMD motherboard so I may as well be enthusiastic...till my net build anyway).