Over the last two week from two Lan party I have won the best of Intel and the best of AMD. From the Intel LanFest: Sacramento I won the QX6700 (Quad Core CPU w/ 8 Mb of cache), From the Showdown II Lan (which really sucked other than winning) I won the 680a Asus mobo w/ two OEM FX74 dual cores. Because I am so poor, I have sold both because as much as I want the best out there I believe in actually only owning the second best because of price wise. And also to help fund my schooling. So we (my brother SilentDeath and I) won the Supreme Commander tourney and both got these AMD setups, he kept his. Due to overwhelming request by fellow lanners we had a bench off between My Conroe system and his new AMD system.
So here is what happen just remember, I'm running the fast clock at 3.6Ghz (Overclocked from the stock of 2.4Ghz) but only have a dual core. Silent is running at only 3.0Ghz but has 4 cores. Most of the benches show this because they only test one core or two at the most, only a few tested all cores, and Silent won thoese benchs but not but a whole lot. Both Silent's and my system other than the CPU are the same, both have nforce 680 Mobos, almost the same Graphics card, same ram, same 22inch moniter, (not for long Silent won a 37inch LCD from Showdown too), and so on. So here we go:
I'm going to try putting it into excel so that it is easier to read
guess what i learned is when it was 2 core vs 4 core silent won, but not 1 to 2 score more like I was only a core or maybe a 1/2 a core behind in score. when it came up to real world apps like game and recoding my Conroe rocked all by at least 5% to 10%. Considering the QX6700 beats my Conroe if OC in most score, although not by much. I declare Intel the unchanged winner.
Also consider my Conroe only cost me $320 ( I got the mobo free, but the CPU price has dropped sence I bought it in Dec o6) and the normal retail for the mobo and cpu is $450 compared to the $1200 for the AMD setup. Intel wins again. The conroe uses less power, runs at least 10 C cooler (useing same coolers), and it overclocks like crazy (upto and pass 4Ghz w/ water cooling), the Conroe is the best. I think it is funny that over the last two weeks I have owned both the most exterm Intel (well very close QX6700) system and the AMD (2x FX74), it hasn't made me any happier, but has made me richer (less dirt poor). I would like to try out both are systems on Vista with 64bit support and Dual Core+ support from the OS. But Vista just sucks right now, and so far from what I have sence everything run about 15% slower. I own Home Pre. but don't use it because it won't load up my raid drivers, and I use Vista Ulimate for about half a month. I do like so of the new stuff, but drivers just suck to much.
Last edited by ForceRun on Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:10 pm; edited 2 times in total
So here is what happen just remember, I'm running the fast clock at 3.6Ghz (Overclocked from the stock of 2.4Ghz) but only have a dual core. Silent is running at only 3.0Ghz but has 4 cores. Most of the benches show this because they only test one core or two at the most, only a few tested all cores, and Silent won thoese benchs but not but a whole lot. Both Silent's and my system other than the CPU are the same, both have nforce 680 Mobos, almost the same Graphics card, same ram, same 22inch moniter, (not for long Silent won a 37inch LCD from Showdown too), and so on. So here we go:
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| SilentDeath’s Machine
ASUS L1N64-SLI WS 2x AMD Athalon 64 FX-74s 3GHz 2x Zalman 9700 CPU cooler 2GB DDR2 800MHz (2x 1GB sticks) in dual channel mode XFX 7900 GS 256Mb 120GB WD HD IDE, 250GB WD HD Sata Zalman cooler on GPU 500 Watt cooler master 22” Westinghouse monitor Resolution 1680x1050 G-15 Keyboard G5 Mouse Windows XP SP2 Onboard sound XION Ultimate Engineering XON-002 Black/Silver SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case User SilentDeath (Showdown II - Supreme Commander Winner!) MB and CPUs current retail value $1,200 What paid $0 ForceRun's Machine Intel Conroe E6600 4Mb Core 2 Duo OC to 3.6Ghz Zalman 9700 CPU cooler DDR2 800 (PC6400) GEIL 4-4-4-12 680i EVGA nforce 6 mobo (9.53 Driver) GeForce 7900GT, Stock cooler and clocks (94.24 Driver) SB Creative X-Fi F Pro (Later) System HD 320 ide Drive Western Digital Data Sata 3 1 Tb (4 x 250 Gb Drves) Western Digital 16x DVD burner 510 Watt Pure Power PC&C PSU (650Watt) Dual moniters: 22inch Sceptre 1680x1050 LCD and 19inch Mag 1280x1024 Windows XP SP2 w/ Latest and Greatest Updates Case Thermaltake Aquila Black (3x 120mm Fans and 1x 92mm Fan) all air cooling. G-15 Keyboard G5 Mouse User ForceRun (Showdown II - Supreme Commander Winner!) MB and CPU Current Retail price $450 What paid $320 The first round CINEBENCH 9.5 **************************************************** Tester : ForceRun Processor : Bob 2 Duo MHz : 3600 Number of CPUs : 2 Operating System : WinXP - Latest Graphics Card : 7900GT - Stock Resolution : <fill> Color Depth : <fill> **************************************************** Rendering (Single CPU): 597 CB-CPU Rendering (Multiple CPU): 1107 CB-CPU Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.85 Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 702 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 2040 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 3320 CB-GFX OpenGL Speedup: 4.73 **************************************************** CINEBENCH 9.5 **************************************************** Tester : SilentDeath Processor : Silent MHz : 3000 Number of CPUs : 4 Operating System : Win XP SP2 Graphics Card : XFX 7900 GS Resolution : <fill> Color Depth : <fill> **************************************************** Rendering (Single CPU): 438 CB-CPU Rendering (Multiple CPU): 1338 CB-CPU Multiprocessor Speedup: 3.05 Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 488 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 2038 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 2884 CB-GFX OpenGL Speedup: 5.91 **************************************************** And just because we could, we benched our dads Mac Pro. Total cost around $3,000 + ( like another $3,000 for Software) CINEBENCH 9.5 **************************************************** Tested : Mac Pro Processor : 2x Dual Core Intel Xeon MHz : 3000 Number of CPUs : 4 Operating System : OS X Graphics Card : 7300 Resolution : <fill> Color Depth : <fill> **************************************************** Rendering (Single CPU): 494 CB-CPU Rendering (Multiple CPU): 1560 CB-CPU Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 589 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 2325 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 4685 CB-GFX OpenGL Speedup: 7.96 **************************************************** The winner is the Conroe in Single CPU and all of Shading the FX74s only get the prize for Multiple CPU And the Mac beats us all, but still has no games to play so is worthless, lol Second Round SiSoft Sandra XI ForceRun's scores CPU Arithmetic Dhrystone ALU 32983 MIPS Whetstone iSSE3 22839 MFLOPS Higher = Better Processor Multi-Media Integer x4 aEMMX/aSSE 198339 it/s Floating-Point x4 iSSE2 107538 it/s Higher is better Multi-Core Efficiency inter-Core Bandwidth 8572 MB/s (Better if Higher) Inter- Core Latency 93ns (lower is Better) Power Management Efficiency ALU Performance (Dhrystone MIPS) 12806 (Higher is better) 0 Memory Bandwidth (DDR2 800) RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 7508 MB/s RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 7523 MB/s Higher=better Memory Latency (Cache) Memory Latency (Random Access) 66ns Speed Factor 78.3 Lower=Better Memory Latency (Linear Access) 8ns Speed Factor 9.9 Cache and Memory Combined Index 21383 MB/s Higher = Better Speed Factor 82.1 Lower=Better SilentDeath's Scores Processor Arithmetic Dhrystone ALU 41177 MIPS iSSe3 36844 MFLOPs Higher is better Processor Multi-Media Integer x4 aEMMX/aSSE 112951 it/s Floating-Point x4 iSSE2 124434 it/s Higher is better Mulit-Core Efficiency Inter-Core Bandwidth 3260 MB/s Higher is better Inter-Core Latency 94 ns Lower is better Power Managment Efficiency ALU Performance (Dhrystone MIPS) 22685 PowerEffciency 1.77 Higher is better Memory Bandwidth RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 5909 MB/s RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 5905 MB/s Higher is better Memory Latency Memory Latency (Random Access) 150 ns Speed Factor 148.9 Memory Lateny (Linear Access) 33 ns Speed Factor 32 Lower is better Cache and Memory Combined Index 18461 MB/s Higher is better Speed Factor 24.4 Lower is better Round 3 Games Supreme Commander (/map PerfTest) Resolution 1680x1050 Fidelity Presets High ForceRun's score Supreme Commander Logged frames : 7826 SupComMark (sim) : 9023 SupComMark (render) : 6098 SupComMark (composite) : 15121 FPS calls[ 7826] min[ 5.80] max[ 58.27] avg[ 24.812] SilentDeath's score Supreme Commander Resolution 1680x1050 (60)Hrz Refresh rate Fidelity Presets High Logged frames : 7535 SupComMark (sim) : 8732 SupComMark (render) : 5886 SupComMark (composite) : 14618 Higher is better Frame FPS calls[ 7535] min[ 5.71] max[ 54.23] avg[ 23.312] Company of Heroes patch 1.70 Resolution 1680x1050 Everything off/low ForceRun's Avg: 59.5 fps Max 60.1 fps Min 41.7 fps SilentDeath's Avg 59.4 fps Max 60.0 fps Min 40.8 fps Everything Maxed (DX9) ForceRun's Avg: 25.5 fps Max 59.7 fps Min 3.9 fps SilentDeath's Avg 25.9 fps Max 59.7 fps Min 10.6 fps Automatic Settings ForceRun's Avg: 33.4 fps Max 59.8 fps Min 9.7 fps SilentDeath's Avg 33.6 fps Max 59.8 fps Min 16.2 fps Counter Strike: Source Counter Strike: Source Resolution 1680x1050 MD High, TD High, SD High WD Reflect All, SD High, CC Enabled AA mode 2x MSAA, FM Antisotropic 4x, WFVS Disabled HDR Full ForceRun 129.25 fps SilentDeath 139.80 fps MAX settings ForceRun 110.83 fps SilentDeath 118.51 fps Min settings ForceRun 283.51 fps SilentDeath 191.45 fps Half Life 2: Lost Coast Resolution 1680x1050 Default settings ForceRun 133.88 fps SilentDeath 123.49 fps Max ForceRun 110.62 fps SilentDeath 94.64 fps Min ForceRun 201.21 fps SilentDeath 137.93 fps TrackMania Nations Resolution 1680x1050 ForceRun Current 86.4 fps Auto 87.3 fps Min 606 fps Low 485 fps Med 251 fps High 91.4 fps Very high 87.2 fps SilentDeath Current 77.8 fps Automatic 78.7 fps Minimum Quality 402 fps Low Quality 345 fps Medium Quality 218 fps High Quality 81.8 fps VeryHigh Quality 77.5 fps FairUse Wizard 2 (Full verson) Recode to Xvid 2 passes 700Mb Lord of the Rings Return of the King ED Retail DL DVD Disk 2 ForceRun's comp Max 224fps - 47:41 Total time to recode. SilentDeath's comp Max 156fps - 1:06:10 Total time to recode. 3Dmark 06 Default Settings ForceRun's 3D marks 06 Total 5304 SM2.0 2023 GT1 16.392 FPS GT2 17.319 FPS HDR/SM3.0 2000 HDR1 17.860 HDR2 22.131 CPU : 3079 .982fps 1.545fps SilentDeath's 3DMark Score: 5721 SM2.0 Score: 2186 GT1 - Return To Proxycon 17.635 fps GT2 - Firefly Forest 18.796 fps HDR/SM3.0 Score 2141 HDR1 - Canyon Flight 18.939 fps HDR2 - Deep Freeze 23.878 fps CPU Score: 3404 CPU1 - Red Valley 1.138 fps CPU2 - Red Valley 1.630 fps 3Dmark 05 Default Settings ForceRun's Total 9398 GT1 43.0FPS GT2 28.1 FPS GT3 43.9 FPS CPU 10760 CUp 1 6.1 CPU 2 8.5 SilentDeath's 3Dmark Score: 9710 GT1 - Return To Proxycon 42.4 fps GT2 - Firefly Forest 29.5 fps GT3 - Canyon flight 46.9 fps CPU Score: 6746 CPU Test 1 2.8 fps CPU Test 2 7.3 fps |
I'm going to try putting it into excel so that it is easier to read
guess what i learned is when it was 2 core vs 4 core silent won, but not 1 to 2 score more like I was only a core or maybe a 1/2 a core behind in score. when it came up to real world apps like game and recoding my Conroe rocked all by at least 5% to 10%. Considering the QX6700 beats my Conroe if OC in most score, although not by much. I declare Intel the unchanged winner.
Also consider my Conroe only cost me $320 ( I got the mobo free, but the CPU price has dropped sence I bought it in Dec o6) and the normal retail for the mobo and cpu is $450 compared to the $1200 for the AMD setup. Intel wins again. The conroe uses less power, runs at least 10 C cooler (useing same coolers), and it overclocks like crazy (upto and pass 4Ghz w/ water cooling), the Conroe is the best. I think it is funny that over the last two weeks I have owned both the most exterm Intel (well very close QX6700) system and the AMD (2x FX74), it hasn't made me any happier, but has made me richer (less dirt poor). I would like to try out both are systems on Vista with 64bit support and Dual Core+ support from the OS. But Vista just sucks right now, and so far from what I have sence everything run about 15% slower. I own Home Pre. but don't use it because it won't load up my raid drivers, and I use Vista Ulimate for about half a month. I do like so of the new stuff, but drivers just suck to much.
Last edited by ForceRun on Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:10 pm; edited 2 times in total
