With as much
AMD fanfare as there was leading up to this release, you'd think they would've managed to drum up a bit better showing. After running up against a battery of benchmark tests, AMD's Quad FX dual CPU platform has been throughly trounced by Intel's QX6700 2.66GHz processor. While things looks
great on paper for AMD, with exciting amounts of bandwidth between the two processors, and dedicated memory for each chip, in practice the Quad FX platform is an utter power hog (double that of the QX6700), and only squeezed by Intel in a handful of tests, while for the most part racking up loss after loss, trailing from 10 to 40 percent behind the Intel's 65nm quad-core chip. Price is also a concern, since even though AMD is pricing the actual chips aggressively, you'll still have to spring around $480 for the only motherboard that can handle 'em, and those 1000W power supplies don't really come cheap. Of course, AMD does have 65nm chips on the way, which should do better against Intel on a clock-to-clock basis, and Windows Vista will include lots of mult-thread enhancements to "even the playing field," but there's still no denying that AMD got spanked in this round, and we don't suppose Intel will just be sitting around while AMD plays catch up.
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posted December 2nd 2006 9:03PM
Clearly AMD are in a catch up and reactive mode to Intel. Certainly for the next 6 months Intel has the lead in terms of performance and power consumption.
Both AMD and Intel have new products for 2007 and the fgame will resume at that time, but for now Intel's in front. Intel also looks well set to lead into the 45 nanometer chipset for AMD needs to be on their top top game.
I won't by a Intel anyway :)
AMD will come up with some new chips soon.
I just can't believe the 1000W power consumption!
Also the new AMD cpus that will be coming out have the capabitly to throttle down/"turn off" the unused cores to save on power.That along with the smaller die process I hope helps bring the power consumption to a "level field" The new Intel chips are great, but Intel does have more manufacturing plants and it another reason why they are a few stages in "die size" ahead of AMD.
I agree, I am shocked at how much power this setup requires with the current chips AMD has available, however it is not to be unexpected. Considering atm it is simply "two setups" in one, the power would be expected to be roughly double that of the since cpu setups. Again once the new cpu's are out that are made specifically for things like this (rather than rebadged opteron cpu's which is what these currend "quad fx cpus" are) hopefully we will see some more comparable numbers. And the ability of having an 8 core system after just upgrading the cpus (if u have the setup already) is a nice feature too.
In regards to some of the people in the post talking about how great K8L will be.
Yes, it is a new architecture. Yes, when Intel initially goes 45nm there will be no new architecture changes (Hence not much more performance)Finally, yes AMD SHOULD be releasing this new achitecture sometime between the summer and fall of next year. But the thing I should stress, that unlike when the core2 came out, is there are NO technical previews of this chip to come out yet. Until I see some benchmarks, or something that actually gives me hard knowledge of how the chip is going to perform I am not going to be interested in it. Don't get me wrong, if AMD really pulls up and blows Intel out of the water with the new chip I will be the first to praise and buy it. Until then, it is just rumors how it will perform. I do have to say I am excited about what "Fusion" could potentially do for the entry level graphics market and what K8L could potentially do, but until then I have to take what ever I read with a grain of salt.
George
wtf AMD........ WTF i never seen so much slacking from you guys
Not surprising. AMD has never had the best CPUs. They just gained publicity by having 64-bit CPUs at consumer prices for a while. But now, Intel has gotten serious again, and has the best technology, and the best prices.