Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Preview from Taiwan
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Gary Key on June 6, 2006 7:35 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Content Creation Performance
We were a bit surprised by the close race in the Multimedia Content Creation Winstone tests, but it does look like the Athlon 64 FX-62 can still be pretty competitive in some areas:
The Core 2 Extreme X6800 is still faster by 5.7%, but no where near the huge performance increases we saw on the previous page. Looking at SYSMark's ICC tests however, the picture changes dramatically:
When AMD introduced the Athlon 64 X2 we saw SYSMark 2004 scores hit new, never before seen, highs.
With Intel's Core 2 Extreme X6800, our performance expectations are reset once more. In all of the Content Creation tests, the Core 2 Extreme outpaces the FX-62 by anywhere from 27% to 28%.
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fikimiki - Wednesday, June 7, 2006 - link
You are right except 2 points:- Motherboards for 2 CPUs are expensive, 4x4 should cost no more than standard motherboard
- 4x4 is aimed also for X2, so two X2 3800+ means cheap monster!
From AMD side I don't see any panic, they are executing their plan and nothing more.
gramboh - Wednesday, June 7, 2006 - link
Are you serious? I can't see AMD pricing FX62 much under $800 it would screw up the rest of their pricing scheme too much, spending $1600 on CPUs to best a $500 CPU is insane. If you need to wait month to month for free cash flow to build a computer, you really don't have enough wealth to afford $1600-$2000 on cpu alone.
rqle - Tuesday, June 6, 2006 - link
if 2.6ghz beat out FX62, then a 2.4ghz conroe should equal the same, i rather take a $300 2.4ghz then a $1000 FX2.ShapeGSX - Tuesday, June 6, 2006 - link
So you are willing to buy $2000 worth of processors to beat an Intel processor?