| Main > Main Forum |
| Phenom II vs Core 2 Duo - Benchmarks |
| << < (5/8) > >> |
| Kman-Sweden:
So who'll buy a Phenom II x4 to bench? ;D |
| saurian333:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on January 11, 2010, 01:45:55 pm ---We also can't say "Core2 is the only way to go" anymore. --- End quote --- Maybe my opinion (you know what they say about those), but I daresay that was never the case. I've been running an Athlon64 X2 for 2.5 years, not overclocked. I've compared it with friends' similar machines running Core2 of same or even higher speed. I haven't had one significantly outperform it yet. Higher benchmark numbers, yes. Noticeable real-world performance, never. The only place I'd recommend a Core2 is in a notebook. The mobile AMD chips run significantly hotter, so they almost always have louder fans. Kind of irritating sometimes, although a small sacrifice to get the much better value, IMO. |
| massive88:
I was very sloppy with my averages, just put the average of one column divided by the average of another, which is the reason for the error between our numbers. The games were more or less selected at random, and I think all use different drivers. Its really interesting to me that it turned out how it did, basically as many faster on one chip than the other, which strongly points to them being more or less equal (again, given the limitations of my tests, with the AMD computer using slower ram and a different OS). Anyway, glad to put out some numbers that might help someone make a decision down the road, and thanks for the help everyone. Oh and also, I tried playing some gauntleg on the AMD using the 0.136. It played fine, sound had some breaks and stutters, but graphically it was smooth as can be. Could probably tweak it to work fine if I spent more time with it, or use 0.132 with it since it seemed to score out better. Anyway, definitely playable. |
| massive88:
--- Quote from: Kman-Sweden on January 11, 2010, 02:00:09 pm ---So who'll buy a Phenom II x4 to bench? ;D --- End quote --- Id expect very little gain over the x3 I used, or an x2 for that matter. As shown above, utilizing multiple cores on average gave about 3% better performance. Unless you know of a specific game that you want to play, that specifically is coded well for multi threading, imo its not worth the price to go anything above 2 cores. |
| dmarcum99:
These are very good numbers to go by. Thank you for your time and research! Now I'm starting to second guess my cab's performance. Are the phenoms AMD's only "good" option for a strong mame cabinet? NEWEGG has a good deal on a AMD 64X2 6000+ processor. Wondering if it would be a good alternative or should I keep my conroe E4300.My mobo won't overclock the E4300....it's a factory gateway mobo (ecs 945gct-m3) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103772 |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |