lynxthechosen0
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Is this processor any good ?
AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
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andy faith
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one of the fastest around at the moment I do believe
andy faith
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maybe I'm a bit behind the times then...oh well. What's the latest top of the line processor then?
Geoff
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The latest and highest performing desktop line would be the Core 2 Duo/Quad.
INTELCRAZY
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More like around the E6400, 2Mb Cache and the 6000+ is more comparable to the E6600
ThatGuy16
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Have you seen benchmarks? at stock speeds the 6000 beats it in most of them...
If anything at 2.8ghz the 5600 would compare to the E6550
At (stock) the 5600 is around the 6550 or 6600, the 6400 is closer to the 5000 or 5200.
that would be the core 2 extreme 6850
maroon1
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Just look at the benchmarks here
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3038
E6550 outperforms 5600+ most of the time
E6550 performs on par with 6000+
EDIT: I can show you an evidence that E6550 is even faster than 6000+
E6550 on average is 7.3% faster than 5600+
6000+ has only 6.6% higher clock than 5600+. This means that 6000+ can't be more than 6.6% faster than 5600+ in any application. This also means than 6000+ on average is less than 6.6% faster than 5600+
This also means that the average performance of E6550 is better than 6000+. Not by a lot but it is better.
And remember that the applications where E6550 outperforms 6000+ is more important. For example, gaming is more important for most people than cinebench. Encoding and photoshop is more important than SYSMark2007
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maroon1
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E6400 beats 5000+ in most cases
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2duo-e6420_7.html#sect0
I think is more comparable to 5200+ and E6420 is comparable to 5600+ at stock
And remember that synthetic benchmarks (like 3dmark) are not so important, because 3dmark don't not tell you which processor is better.
If you don't include synthetic benchmarks, then I think E6400 would even outperform 5200+. Because it performs very well in real world applications and gaming
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That doesnt have anything to do with the 6550 and the 5600, thats a comparison between Xeon and the Opteron
maroon1
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Ok here is the right link
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3038&p=12
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3038&p=12
I used the word (closer), it beats the 5000 by a few points, big deal. If they used the 5200 and I did say 5000 or 5200 the 5200 would probable be a few points ahead of the 6400. The 6400 is pretty much between the 5000 and the 5200
It all comes down to the Core 2 has about a 400 to 500MHZ advantage on the X2. If you have a Core 2 at 1.8 it takes a X2 at 2.2 to equal it
maroon1
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LOL ^^
Did you even look at the benchmarks that I posted ?? Did you look at all pages ?
The only difference between 5000+ and 5200+ is that 5200+ has more cache. the extra cache in 5200+ won't help it
The E6400 in the benchmark I posted was a clear winner. If you look at the next page, the E6400 outperformed 5000+ by around 70% in some of the office applications
The only place where 5000+ performed well are in 3dmarks and PCmarks. But those are noting. They are just programs made for scoring points.
In gaming, office applications, editing, encoding, rendering and phtoshop, E6400 was a clear winner. And I think E6400 would even outperform 5200+ most of time in these applications
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maroon1
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Depending on the cache and FSB, Core 2 Duo has around 20-30% advantage over AMD
E6550 performs on par with 6000+, yet the clock speed difference is about 766MHz
I think E2140 performs on par with 3600+, yet the clock speed difference is only 300MHz
I pretty sure that Core 2 Duo overclocked to 5GHz with beat AMD at 6GHz
So, saying that core 2 have 20-30% advantage over AMD is much more accurate than saying that core 2 has 400 to 500MHZ advantage
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Ok, what ever you want to think, both of us are talking about a few seconds or frames
. Look at it this way, when AMD came out with the Athlon 64 it took Intel years (about 5) to release the Core 2 to beat it. After the Core 2 was released its took AMD alittle over a year to come out with the Barcelona and the Agena and Kuma for desktop later this year and considering Intel is 20 times bigger thats a shame factor that AMD could ever beat it
. Look at it this way, when AMD came out with the Athlon 64 it took Intel years (about 5) to release the Core 2 to beat it. After the Core 2 was released its took AMD alittle over a year to come out with the Barcelona and the Agena and Kuma for desktop later this year and considering Intel is 20 times bigger thats a shame factor that AMD could ever beat it