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3DMark 11 And Games

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amdfangirl 12/24/2012 3:18 AM
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Sometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase.

anonymous 12/24/2012 3:24 AM
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Where are the Visual Studio Test results?

johnsonjohnson 12/24/2012 3:29 AM
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Sandy and Ivy i3s are MIA.

emperor piehead 12/24/2012 3:30 AM
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Why is the fx6300 missing i wanted to see how it fit into this

jupiter optimus maximus 12/24/2012 3:36 AM
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Thanks Toms, now i know that i can get double the performance and 3/4 the power consumption going from AMD 955 to a Core i5 3570K.

mayankleoboy1 12/24/2012 3:46 AM
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Great benchmarks.
But i want some processors which were legendary overclockers, and representatives of their generation of CPU's, included with a nominal OC :

intel C2D E7300 : 2.66- > 3.33
Intel C2Q Q6600 : 2.4- > 3.0ghz
Intel i5-750 : 2.66 - >3.33

Its highly likely that a person has owned at least one of these CPU's. I want to know how well these compare to modern processors.

mayankleoboy1 12/24/2012 3:52 AM
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And please update the Winrar to version 4.2 . The 3.9 you are using is quite old and has poor multithreading.

bak0n 12/24/2012 4:00 AM
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amdfangirl :
Sometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase.


I always wish this. Beyond that the AM3 Athlon X2's are still being sold at newegg and the Phenom X2's are not...

Soma42 12/24/2012 4:00 AM
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amdfangirl :
Sometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase.



Agreed, maybe just one dual core and one quad? q9550 and e6850? not that I still own both of those or anything...

But let's do some math. Just for a rough order of magnitude I figure an average of 15% increase in performance per clock cycle, per generation (not including clock speed, number of cores, etc.). So if we start back at Conroe and work our way to present day Ivy Bridge, that's 5 new generations of processors. 1.15^5 = 2.01

Which means that an Ivy Bridge CPU at the same speed as a Conroe CPU (2006ish) is about 2x as fast per clock cycle, on average. Once you take into account faster clock speeds, number of cores, cache sizes, integrated memory controllers, etc. and more importantly what software will be used with the CPUs the real world performance difference could be almost nothing to somewhere around 10-15x as fast.

I digress. The point being, is I would like to see some more benchies Tom's! Prove me wrong!

flyflinger 12/24/2012 4:01 AM
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Lot of great info here, but missing Core i3 info leaves a big hole in the data point. Please add.

JOSHSKORN 12/24/2012 4:09 AM
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amdfangirl :
Sometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase.


Yes! Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU owner here.

Onikage 12/24/2012 4:14 AM
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A Proud Owner of 2700K here !
i'll skip ivy and Haswell as well with this Sensational Cpu at 4.6Ghz

EzioAs 12/24/2012 4:14 AM
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I believe the i5-2500K has a 95W TDP instead of 65W.

Sumukh_Bhagat 12/24/2012 4:16 AM
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This is very Helpful. Now I knew that I did a very good work upgrading to 3470. ;)
There should be i3 3220 too. Really wanted to know about that.

A Bad Day 12/24/2012 4:21 AM
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amdfangirl :
Sometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase.



Throw in a Pentium 4 as a reminder to those folks who still think they can run BF3 on a 1.8 GHz Willamette.


And as for fun, there should've been a CPU rendering test. Windows 7 has a function that allows a CPU do to DX10 graphics, completely bypassing the GPU. The only obviously issue that CPUs are terrible compared to GPUs when it comes to graphics.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/2 [...] it-slowly/

tomfreak 12/24/2012 4:43 AM
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amdfangirl :
Sometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase.

Agreed, 1 Core 2 duo/quad 65nm & Core 2 duo/quad 45nm.

There is no need to bench 2600K/2700K & Core i5-2300/Core i5-2310, just one of the 2 set will do, because we all know their performance is close to identical.

nebun 12/24/2012 4:58 AM
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amd has a lot of work to do

JebbyC 12/24/2012 5:14 AM
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Is it just me or are the Mafia II frame rates really low?

Cryio 12/24/2012 5:18 AM
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Why are there no Vishera CPUs in the charts?

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