Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 7, 2006 3:58 PM EST- Posted in
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While we're still comparing to Socket-939 and only using RD480, it does seem very unlikely that AMD would be able to make up this much of a deficit with Socket-AM2 and RD580. With Conroe's performance advantage averaging over 20% it looks like Intel's confidence has been well placed.
Also keep in mind that we are over six months away from the actual launch of Conroe, performance can go up from where it is today. We also only looked at the 2.66GHz part, the Extreme Edition version of Conroe will most likely be clocked around 3.0GHz which will extend the performance advantage even further.
AMD still does have some time to surprise us with AM2, but from what we've seen today, they are going to have to do a lot of work to close this gap. We saw performance today in the two areas that we were most concerned about with Conroe: gaming and media encoding, and in both Intel greatly exceeded our expectations. Also remember that Conroe should be lower power than the AMD offering we compared it to, although we weren't able to measure power consumption at the wall in our brief time with the systems.
Going into IDF we expected to see a good showing from Conroe, but leaving IDF, well, now we just can't wait to have it.
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raskren - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
The AMDroid are really reaching now...Sh0ckwave - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
You have no idea what your talking about. I have just checked two Nforce 4 Athlon 64 systems, and guess what, they all have "AwardBIOS v6.00PG" The BIOS version is at the bottom of the POST page, not at the top - its not in that screenshot. So you dont know what bios version it was running.gersson - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Holy Crap -- why??? Muslim extremist??? O_o5150Joker - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
I won't support their chips because they use strong arm tactics to keep out the competition and secondly because their R&D facility is in Israel and I refuse to support anything that comes out of that place.ATC - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
Actually, Intel has plans for a large facility to open in the Gaza strip to help out the Palestinians. It is a very nobel move by Intel. Good on them.JumpingJack - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
And I agree with the agree'ers :) .... this was not only inappropriate, but majorly inaccurate. Intel has R&D in several locations, the design originated in Israel, but the chips on display were developed/manufactured and produced at Intel's largest (main) R&D site in Oregon.JackPack - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
You can tell from the codename which is designed where.Only Conroe was designed State side. The Core architecture, and Merom is clearly Israeli.
JackPack - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
Forgot to add: 5150Joker's comment is despicable.dali71 - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Take your anti-semitic rant somewhere else, jackass. Aren't you late for your Klan rally?Sunrise089 - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
I agree with dali71, and it's wonderful to see 5150Joker someone using such neutral and kind language as "that place". Of course I'm sure each and every Intel employee in Israel is personally responsible for all of the region's problems, and are not simply men and women trying to do the best they can earning a living in a dangerous situation, right 5150Joker?