Intel 6xx Series Reviewed and Benchmarked

sebFlyte writes "It's been a long time coming, but Intel's first 64-bit desktop chip (the 6xx series) is here now, and thanks to ZDNet it has been thoroughly tested. The article has the full specs of the new family, explains the benefits of the changes, and also the results of tests on the new chips to establish perfomance boosts for games, photo manipulation and video work, among other things."

Comments

mostly 32-bit benchmarks...

[Master Bait]

I'm not impressed. All those 32-bit benchmarks to benchmark their 64-bit CPU. Last week Linux Hardware benched the new Pentium against Opteron with real 64-bit apps on a real 64-bit OS.

Re:heating

[tmasssey]

Unless you have unique processors with moving parts, 100% of power consumed by a processor is converted to heat. 100%. So, yes, that *is* an indicatin of heat.

The only small caveat is that those are, according to you, max power consumption. Typical power consumption may be different. However, the proportion of typical to maximum is most likely comparable between the AMD and Intel chips. Assuming that it is, then the numbers are *still* indicative of heat... :)

Re:Naming

[GeorgeMcBay]

Moore's law will have to be fulfilled in new, unique ways.


Moore's Law was never about speed in gigahertz, but rather about transistor counts, so it'll continue on as it always has, since more cores means more transistors.

Techreport's test is from feb. 20th

[Daath]

Techreport's test is from feburary 20th, and shows somewhat the same - AMD64 is king of gaming, and doing one thing at a time - Intel is good at encoding etc, and thanks to HT, doing more than one thing at a time - I would prefer AMD for now (I got a Prescott 550 3.4GHz - I wish I had an AMD).
Ain't it great with competition?! :D