where are the benchmarks that show this and the costs of each processor to perform a
priceerformance ratio analysis?
Maybe the production costs for each phenon is higher? That will keep the high losses because of even lower margins.
where are the benchmarks that show this and the costs of each processor to perform a
priceerformance ratio analysis?
Maybe the production costs for each phenon is higher? That will keep the high losses because of even lower margins.
Nothing. It's just that this is the AMD excecution thread.What does this have to do with Phenom being a good value to consumers?
What would you sugest?
Nothing. It's just that this is the AMD excecution thread.
Most fitting would be crossfired HD3870's or at least a 8800GTX, something which is not going to be GPU bound and so invalidate the test.
That's a bit excessive, isn't it? Phenom comes out on Nov 19th, so for nearly two months its competitor is the Q6600, not the Q9300.This is the end
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That seems to show much lower prices compared to Isorm.Moles at our German research division have pointed us to IT4Profit.com, specifically this page, which lists Phenom X4s at $247, $278 and $288 respectively.
Though I do wonder what need there is for three CPUs with 100MHz speed differences between them. That is less than 4.5%.
Any information about that? All I know is AMD showed couple of 3GHz CPUs months ago but cannot release anything near that speed for quite some time. Kind of makes me doubt the OC capacity.Given the large overclock capacity of Phenons
It's unlikely, 3DMark06 CPU is virtually unaffected by memory bandwidth or latency.
Any information about that? All I know is AMD showed couple of 3GHz CPUs months ago but cannot release anything near that speed for quite some time. Kind of makes me doubt the OC capacity.
You sure? Back in the day I had an AXP with a maxed out FSB and low latency memory and it was beating s754 A64's clock for clock in 3dmark06's cpu test. (and that was about the only test it would win in) Then again, that could be an atypical example as the axps were unusually bandwidth limited and latency dependent, probably the reason for a lot of the changes made to the a64.
You know, here is one aspect of AMD that I find fascinating. The company has been in business for 38 years. Through almost 4 decades of existence, their lifetime cumulative net profit is ... -$1.3 Billion dollars as of last quarter. If you take out the brutal last year when they lost over $2B, their lifetime commutative profits will be $863 million. That's about a bad quarter's worth of profits for Intel. To put it in another perspective, they lost over two times more money over the last 4 quarters then they made over the preceding 145+. During their "best ever" stretch of four consecutive quarters (which incidently more then doubled their lifetime net profits up to that point), AMD made $505 million. Over the last 4 quarters, Nvidia made $576 million.
It certainly is hard to compete against someone much bigger than yourself. Things went quite well for as long as Intel was still doing its old Netbursts. Too bad that AMD not-that-good 65nm K8, late and mediocre K10 and big spending fell to the same time when Intel finally managed to produce something good. I'm not sure if I'd say that monopoly caused the happenings of the past year and a half.