maverik-sg1
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Well,
Here it is guys and gals:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=265&type=expert&pid=1
Impressive considering the price, performance and power consumption of the 6700, shame they never took the time to overclock the Nvidia NF590 reference board - but a useful insight into how it's gonna perform.
I have to say that in the tests that count, the performance is close but Conroe wins in 90% of tests by over 10% for a chip that's nearly half the cost of an FX62.
The big thing here is that it is that close (not the 20+% we see being touted for superpi etc....), leaving optimism for AMD fans as AMD enter the 65nm phase at the back of this year. Previous die reductions have shown 10% performance boosts and faster clocks of previous generations (although some are convinced that K8 will not scale that well above 3.6ghz) - that puts the AMD 65nm in the same performance bracket as Conroe in the tests used on this review. Not forgetting that this intermediate change to 65nm brings with it more tweaks (memory controller, more data paths etc..) that should see that typical boost be more of a leap than a step. The trick will be gaining performance whilst significantly reducing power consumption adn avoiding the dreaded cold bug.
The next 5 months will be very interesting, especially as the rumour mill suggest that there is a bandwidth bottleneck in Intel Quad Core CPU's - if this is proven to be correct the swtich back to Intel could be short lived as AMD surge forwrd with their Quad core technology which (due to onboard memory controller) has no such issues.
Mav
Here it is guys and gals:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=265&type=expert&pid=1
Impressive considering the price, performance and power consumption of the 6700, shame they never took the time to overclock the Nvidia NF590 reference board - but a useful insight into how it's gonna perform.
I have to say that in the tests that count, the performance is close but Conroe wins in 90% of tests by over 10% for a chip that's nearly half the cost of an FX62.
The big thing here is that it is that close (not the 20+% we see being touted for superpi etc....), leaving optimism for AMD fans as AMD enter the 65nm phase at the back of this year. Previous die reductions have shown 10% performance boosts and faster clocks of previous generations (although some are convinced that K8 will not scale that well above 3.6ghz) - that puts the AMD 65nm in the same performance bracket as Conroe in the tests used on this review. Not forgetting that this intermediate change to 65nm brings with it more tweaks (memory controller, more data paths etc..) that should see that typical boost be more of a leap than a step. The trick will be gaining performance whilst significantly reducing power consumption adn avoiding the dreaded cold bug.
The next 5 months will be very interesting, especially as the rumour mill suggest that there is a bandwidth bottleneck in Intel Quad Core CPU's - if this is proven to be correct the swtich back to Intel could be short lived as AMD surge forwrd with their Quad core technology which (due to onboard memory controller) has no such issues.
Mav
