Friday, April 20th 2007
AMD still Competing on price
techPowerUp! doesn't tend give much news attention to other site's reviews, other than listing them just under the date each day, but this is perhaps more interesting than most. Legit Reviews has posted an quite thorough comparison between the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 when it comes to gaming - two very similarly priced processors at $184 and $185 respectively. The conclusion by the author is that when running games with AA and AF at normal resolutions, the performance difference it too hard to call, which is somewhat justified. However, when you look deeper into the benchmarks it becomes quite clear that, on two very similar systems, AMD's offering is certainly victorious in the majority of benchmarks, often by quite a noticeable margin (15+ frames per second). In fact, the Core 2 Duo only outperformed the X2 on two tests: it had 0.1 more FPS in Call of Duty 2 with 4 x AA and 16 x AF, and 1 FPS more in Quake 4. Although this test doesn't allow for overclocking potential, it would certainly suggest that AMD may still offer more bang for your buck when it comes to gaming with CPUs costing around $200 at stock speeds.
Source:
The Inquirer
21 Comments on AMD still Competing on price
but once you overclock amd doesn't stand a chance
but then again amd isn't really in the business of pricing their products based on overclocking result since it matter to only a small fraction of their overall customer base
Still interesting. I would have thought the C2D would layeth the smackdown on AMDs candy ass (yeah Im a fanboi saying that!)
a quick trip over to newegg reveals that the 5600+ oem goes for $185 there, while the e6300 $185 price point is for the retail version, the retail 5600+ is going for $199
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103770
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103771
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115005
I'd like to see the comparrison done with a slower amd part, like the
X2 4600 2.4ghz -$119
or the X2 5000(2x512kb cache 2.6ghz) - $159
X2 5200(2x1mb cache 2.6ghz -$169
Those are retail prices. It would also be interesting to compare these to the E4300($135 at the egg) as well, see how they all compare at stock using the same components, albiet different motherboards.
but this is primarily a site devoted to overclocking, so that argument won't hold a lot of water around here
Motherboards are usualy cheaper for AMD. Up to 15% margin.