Intel's Conroe Resurfaces, Benchmarks Strong

MojoKid writes "Intel has been occasionally leaking performance results of their upcoming Core 2 Duo processor for the desktop, code named Conroe. At this years IDF select members of the press were allowed to get hands-on access to test systems for benchmarking. Now, coincident with this week's Computex show in Taiwan, Intel has seen fit to show us just what their soon to be released CPU can do, yet again. Select press members got together with Intel in New York city for another round of testing with Conroe. HotHardware has a performance showcase posted with scores from a Core 2 Duo E6700 machine and a 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X6800. The results, compared against the backdrop of an overclocked 2.8GHz Athlon 64 FX-60 system, look very impressive indeed for Intel."

Comments

Benchmarking

[Ice Wewe]

This is an unfair comparison. The benchmarkers are using a Socket 939 FX-60, which uses the older, slower DDR RAM. If they really wanted to compare the next generation CPUs, they'd get a FX-62 Socket AM2 (940 pin) CPU, and test it with the same DDR2 RAM that was used in the intel test system. I think they'd find AMD would be able to match the performence of the Conroe platform.

Thinking is...

400/667

0.599 = 60%

That means that the DDR RAM is only 60% as fast as the DDR2 RAM they're using, and will only pass 60% as much data. (Assuming that they're Dual Channeling)