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Is this true, which cards are these....is this Intel like brand brand New or what?
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=440329
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=440329
LeeJend said:Thanks, damn shame I can't force myself to follow them, lol.
Back to the anandtech article:
The test was set up by Intel which means the MB's, chipsets, etc were selected to show the maximum difference between the AMD and Intel setups. If they weren't the VP of marketing would have the VP of engineering fired. Other MB's may yield different results
They used systems based on the ATI RDX200 and SB450 southbridge for a crossfire compliant setup. RDX200 was last years AMD crossfire chip. I'd like to see the same tests run on an NF4 board with an SLI rig (and VIA chipsets too) before I made any assumptions.
The Quake 4 and UT2004 demo were run using an Intel demo recording, this means optimizations for their test setup could have been applied. The FEAR demo was stock.
The AMD system was crippled with DDR 400 RAM. Performance with DDR2-800 RAM will be the benchmark for this years top systems, not the DDR2-667. AMD is holding off the AM2 release until the DDR2-800 is widely available because their integrated memory controller benefits greatly from it compared to -667 RAM.
The FEAR and encoding tests were impressive and less likely to doctoring than the video setup. But remember we're talking DDR2-667 vs plain jane DDR 400 on the AMD.
I'm surprised the Conroe could produce that large a difference in video performance. The CPU should not have that much impact unless some feature of the MB chipset is choking the video card performance.
But don't forget this is Intels big shot for the year. AMD has not launched theirs yet. Stay tuned for the independent tests of AM2 vs Conroe this summer.
wind3D said:why is everyone spending so much time justifying why a next gen chip is better than a current gen chip? leejend hit the nail on the head...it's going to get good when am2 is compared to the conroe, and my money is on amd!
we're just wasting time comparing an old chip to a new one...whats the point in all this?