Amazing benchmark results
The following table lists the results for the FX-62 AM2 and the two
Conroes, along with those of other current high-end CPUs.
| Benchnmark/System |
Intel
Conroe E6700 system |
Intel
Conroe E6600 system |
HEXUS FX-62 AM2 system |
HEXUS FX-60 S939 system |
HEXUS Intel Presler 965 system |
| ScienceMark 2.0 memory bandwidth (MB/s) |
5048.13 |
5058.14 |
8144.90 |
5721.22 |
5678.11 |
| ScienceMark 2.0 memory latency (ns, lower is better) |
45.37 |
43.31 |
44.41 |
47.83 |
70.11 |
| HEXUS Pifast (seconds, lower is better) |
35.14 |
38.81 |
44.42 |
47.33 |
57.05 |
| HEXUS Cryptography (higher is better) |
145.22 |
126.1 |
166.1 |
153.26 |
123.34 |
| Realstorm Raytracing 2004 (average FPS, higher is
better) |
30.01 |
27.13 |
25.2 |
25.31 |
17.19 |
| DivX encode - multithreaded (T in seconds, lower is
better) |
125 |
138 |
164 |
176 |
153 |
| WAV conversion - multi-threaded - (T in seconds, lower
is better) |
114 |
127 |
151 |
163 |
149 |
| CINEBENCH multi-CPU render (higher is better) |
859 |
773 |
742 |
692 |
716 |
| KribiBench v1.1 - Jetshadow model (average FPS, higher
is better) |
17.25 |
16.95 |
11.4 |
12.03 |
15.35 |
| Far Cry - 1024x768 - speed (average FPS, higher is
better) |
174.48 |
162.35 |
125.1 |
130.2 |
109.06 |
| Quake 4 - 1600x1200 - 4x AA 16x AF (higher is better) |
115.8 |
113 |
111.7 |
107.23 |
108 |
| Splinter Cell: CT - 1600x1200 - 4x AA 8x AF (higher is
better) |
63.87 |
64.01 |
63.31 |
62.33 |
62.05 |
It's abundantly clear that Conroe will be the fastest CPU in town when
it hits in a few weeks' time. It pulverises all present CPUs in the
majority of CPU-based benchmarks. Just take a look at the Far Cry
(speed) scores!
Take another look and let the numbers sink in.
If it's all too much for you, we've added another table that shows the
Conroe E6700 CPU's performance against the AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 and
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 CPUs, expressed as percentages.
| Benchnmark/System |
Faster/slower
than AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 |
Faster/slower
than Intel Pentium E.E 965 |
| ScienceMark 2.0 memory bandwidth |
-38.02 |
-11.09 |
| ScienceMark 2.0 memory latency |
-2.12 |
54.53 |
| HEXUS Pifast |
26.41 |
62.35 |
| HEXUS Cryptography |
-12.57 |
17.74 |
| Realstorm Raytracing 2004 |
19.09 |
74.58 |
| DivX encode - multithreaded |
31.20 |
22.40 |
| WAV conversion - multithreaded |
32.46 |
30.70 |
| CINEBENCH multi-CPU render |
15.77 |
19.97 |
| KribiBench v1.1 - Jetshadow model |
51.32 |
12.38 |
| Far Cry - 1024x768 - speed |
39.47 |
59.98 |
| Quake 4 - 1600x1200 - 4x AA 16x AF |
3.67 |
7.22 |
| Splinter Cell: CT - 1600x1200 - 4x AA 8x AF |
0.88 |
2.93 |
* - Willy offers his thanks to forumite mxyztplk with his/her help in
producing the correct percentages.
If this were boxing, the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 would be Lennox Lewis,
the Athlon 64 FX-62 Bernard Hopkins and the Intel Presler E.E 965 Ricky
Hatton. They all punch their weight, but some punch a lot heavier than
others.
There's no real need for a summary. The benchmarks tell all. Intel's
Conroe simply outmuscles every currently available CPU. Would
you
buy an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 now? AMD must be thinking that K8-L can't
come soon enough.
A little bird also tells us that the Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition
may well debut with a 3GHz clockspeed. Just imagine that. Gentlemen and
ladies, start your salivating.
Were you one of the Conroe doubters? Still not convinced? Either way,
how do you think AMD is going to respond? Lots to talk
about over
in the
HEXUS.community,
we reckon.
HEXUS.links
HEXUS.content
HEXUS.reviews -
AMD
Socket AM2: Athlon 64 FX-62 and nForce5 590 SLI
HEXUS.headline -
Foxconn
AM2 mainboard at CeBIT 2006 (part of the massive
HEXUS.CEBIT
2006 show coverage)
CeBIT 2006 -
All
HEXUS CeBIT 2006 coverage
IDF Spring 2006 -
HEXUS
report on Conroe benchmarks
IDF Spring 2006 -
HEXUS
report on next generation Core architecture
IDF Spring 2005 -
All
HEXUS coverage
NVIDIA debut EPP memory standard
HEXUS.core
HEXUS reviews -
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HEXUS reviews -
SCAN
3XS Athlon 64 FX-62 AM2 system
UPDATE - July 14, 2006
(launch day for Intel Core 2 Duo)
HEXUS.reviews -
Intel
Conroe Core 2 Duo/Extreme Processors
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exclusive! Intel Conroe-powered MESH Elite Extreme SLI system
External definitions
DDR2 SDRAM -
Wikipedia
Manufacturer links
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I'll be honest with you, nobody cares about your Mac ramblings.. Nobody with a gram (0.0352 ounce) of gray matter would lock themselves into 1 hardware/software platform from which they have no return, and don't even own their own computer and pay way over the head for the 'privilage' of not doing so and the only freedom you have with it is doing nothing. It seems to me that you're trying desperatly hard to convince yourself that you made the right choice.
I thought this was a sub-branch of the HEXUS.opinions forum.. hence he is very free to give his opinion about macs just as you are about linux :p
Since Macs went intel they have thankfully broken free of the 1 hardware/software platform, as you can now buy a mac and then run mac OS, windows or Linux all from the same machine.
Vista is a standalone, however it's a commonish joke that it's not much more than service pack 3 for xp, as they have dropped a lot of the major features such as winFS from the original plans. There are still many things that Vista is doing that are new and great compared to XP, such as finally having decent limited privaledges handling, something *nix has been great at for decades, and one of the main reasons I'm probably going to swap. It's also a 64bit OS that will finally drive widespread use of 64bit code. However it still won't be fully taking advantage of dual cores, and winFS really was going to be a killer feature :(Quote
As illustrated, might I say, in the recent HEXUS.liftestyle reviews of the Mac mini (http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5900) and Boot Camp (http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5314).
Oh, and I'd like to think that I still have sufficient grey matter to seriously consider Mac hardware now that it can easily switch between OS X and XP.
Certainly, I've got enough not to make uniformed comments about others' intentions to do so.Quote
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32818Quote
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