3DMark Vantage Loves The Cores: QCs FTW !!
Here it is, courtesy of Freak and PC Games Hardware Germany:
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4701/cpuqs2.png
Intel is leading and owning and it looks like the benchmark LOVES the extra L2 as well :)
Also, Phenom finally gets its much needed push towards competitiveness. The difference between the QX6850 and the Phenom 9x50 at 3 ghz is 900 points, but it dwindles to 122 points when the final score is calculated. Similarly, the difference between the 3Ghz Q9650 and 3Ghz Phenom scores is almost 2700 points, but when the final score is tallied it is translated to a 365 point lead overall.
Although the Phenoms cannot clock over 3.2 and 3.3 even on the best of chips and the Intel Q9xxx series has been known to reach 4Ghz with ease, 3D Mark Vantage, far from being a perfect benchmark, does well to incorporate a core-based CPU performance approach with greater emphasis on GPU power, which gives AMD a smaller gap to overcome relative to previous 3D benchmarks. AMDs tri-core offerings get a much needed boost from the third core leaving behind Intels fast-clocking E8x00 and E7x00 series. Though the performance boost does not represent in-game performance, it does demonstrate an instance where AMDs attempt to undercut Intels new faster 45nm dual core offerings by offering a cheap tri-core to make up for lower clockspeed has been somewhat successful, in this and other multi-threaded benchmarks, which should encourage AMD Phenom users to check it out as well :up:, as I`m sure Intel enthusiasts will be trying to see how they fare in the extreme setting :eek:
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Top scores (In parenthesis - subtests scores: Banking(SSL) / Ecommerce(partially SSL) / Support (non-SSL))
HP ProLiant DL580 G5, 4S/16C/16T, Intel Xeon X7350, 2930 MHz, 64GB, 58 HDs, RHEL5, Accoria Rock Web Server v1.4.6 - 40046 (71104/55552/36032)
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220, 1S/8C/64T, Sun UltraSPARC T2, 1400 MHz, 64GB, 50 HDs, Solaris 10, Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 7.0 Update 2 - 37001 (63000/49500/36000)
HP ProLiant DL385 G5, 2S/8C/8T, AMD Opteron 2356, 2300 MHz, 32GB, 51 HDs, RHEL5, Accoria Rock Web Server, v1.4.6 - 30007 (50856/46020/25584)
HP ProLiant DL380 G5, 2S/8C/8T, Intel Xeon X5460, 3166 MHz, 32GB, 58 HDs, RHEL5, Accoria Rock Web Server, v1.4.6 - 29591 (51840/46512/23816)
Look at those Intel chips rock and finally position them selfs as a strong alternative to AMD in high bandwidth applications.
I realize this post will provoke strong debate because Intel actually fairs quite poorly but that does not matter as I can always edit my first post. After all I am just trying to prove that I can not have a positive Intel thread without AMD fans hijacking it.