Monstru Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Two icons of CPU history, 6 years of progress, 2 top of the line CPU's from today. From an overall point of view, or clock/clock, core/core with the ancients, how much do you think AMD and Intel progressed in the last 6 years? 4 CPU's, two different approaches, a test of epic proportions! Epic CPU battles of history: Athlon FX-55, Pentium 4 EE, FX-8150 and Core i7 3960X | LAB501 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Checked out some charts yesterday, very nice! Funny how the performance gap between AMD and Intel went from 2.5% to 50% in 6y time. Dramatic performance in Wprime for Bulldozer; I wonder how it'd stack up against a 4x FX-74 system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I can test fx74, but at 2.6ghz? Also got a pair of fx70's here, they're 2.6 stock I think. Apart from that wprime is just as useless as superpi for performance measurements:D Are both fx8150 tests done at 2.6GHz, btw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matose Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 The first test is at 2.6GHz with 1 core active (same as FX-55) and the second one is at default setting (3.6-4.2GHz, 8 cores) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint19 Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 wow, AMD need go back to that old FX55 times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolk Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I would love to read through this if you have an English translation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Would be interesting to compare with Thuban and/or Deneb as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesjuhdabomb Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Omg.. Big fail for amd with 1c1t 2.6ghz on bulldozer. It is not only slower then Phenom 2 but also slower then FX55 of 6 years old.. cmon.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monstru Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 I would love to read through this if you have an English translation. Google Translate does a pretty decent job in most cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I was going to do the same with all CPUs I have, but it takes a shitload of time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaPaKaH Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 San Diego is not as slow clock-per-clock as many people think, only around 10% slower than Deneb in single-threaded benchmarks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OC Nub Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks! I enjoyed reading this. Google translate worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M.O.G. Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Cool article, thanks. Good read. Not sure about the first graphs showing single core performance - it seems more logical to me to show single thread performance rather than single core performance. Showing single thread performance cuts out the HT/multicore evolution of strategy for both sides, as that perspective is covered sufficiently in the second graph. By dropping the Bulldozer down to one core, it eliminates an important factor - AMD's strategic decision to include more cores at less cost. In the meantime the first graph includes Intel's strategic decision to include virtualized threading - that is an important factor as well. A more meaningful comparison would handicap both chips equally. Not a big deal, but I think at a glance the graphs could be misleading for those who don't stop to think about what is being shown. In the future for an article including this sort of comparison, it would be cool to see HT disabled for a true single threaded performance comparison. The important data including the outcome of their architecture strategy is shown sufficiently in the default runs and scores. Compliments on the article again, a lot of work and cool results. I just wanted to offer feedback to lend my perspective. Edited January 3, 2012 by I.M.O.G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesjuhdabomb Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Problem is that AMD position their cpu's as 8 cores and Intel as 4 cores. (Bulldozer / Sandy bridge) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 That shouldn't really matter, it's just marketing "BS":D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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