Originally Posted by
Manicdan
just some random thoughts
the 45nm is ~3s quicker than the 65nm posted by someone on here, when there both in the 3.4ghz range, thats great to know that extra cache is working wonders. looks like 10% more power with the die change, this might be enough to make it equal or beat the intels on real thinking applications
dont know why, but i like 3dmark06 cpu bench, its an easy way to see about how much more powerful cpu to cpu comparisons are. that and cinebench, i think is where people should do much more comparisons instead of pi.
when it comes to cpu scaling in games, the reality is everyons computer is different, and they have adjustable settings to fix that. i just play with fog or shadows or max viewable distance until i find out which is the real bottleneck. i play Grid at 1920x1200 with max textures and lighting, but couldnt care less about how much smoke a burnout does, or how the shadows from trees look. so to me it looks just as good as everything being maxed out, cept 40-60fps. but benchmarks have a standard and i wonder how much higher people could score in 3dmark06 if they were running it to be less cpu dependent. i have a 2900xt and 5000+BE, so for me 11k pts on vista is great, but if i drop in a 4870x2 and get only 13k, does that mean i wasted 500$ for 15% more performance, or does it mean i should tweek it so that my 80$ cpu isnt holding me back any, and then compare how i should see up to 300% increase by swapping the cards.
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