Ketnsfiel Vs Conroe test

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Competition between “brothers”

For a long a amount of time during which their solutions have proven to be more and more inefficient, those at intel have realized there is a need for a change and have replaced the Pentium generation with the Core generation. The beginning of this new stage in the evolution of the biggest chipset producer have been characterized by the Core 2 Duo E6300, E6400, E6600, E6700 and the top model Core 2 Extreme X6800. the list of processors from the new generation is being completed now by that introduction of Core 2 extreme qx6700, But the first processor with four nucleus destined for the desktop computers range.

 

Quad Core

 

The launching of the multicore processors from Intel was expected for quite a long time, But things seemed to have stopped at Dual Core Because of high working temperatures. Though it seems the producer has shown flexibility replacing the Pentium processors serious of products that seem to be the most efficient processors on the market at the moment. The reduced an energetic maintaining costs of the core 2 series make it possible to implement for nucleus in a single processor. But the first processor built this way Core2ExtremeQX6700, is characterized by a 2,66Ghz frequency, Given the fact that the is FSB only 266 MHZ. Being built Two plaques of siliceous with two nucleus for each one We can say about the QX6700 That it is made of two processors, mounted on the same socket. Even the specification for This new model are equivalent to the two E6700 models added up. Thus While a Core 2 at 2.66Ghz Is made from 291 millions transistors and is equipped with a cache L2 memory of 4MB, a Kentsfield Is made from 582 Millions transistors and has base megabytes of free level two cache(2 x 4Mb). The TDP for the new Intel processors Is 130 W, The same As it is for Pentium the 965 EE, Ali that this time it is justified By doubling the number of nucleus.

As the same for the court to processors’ with two nucleus, the quad core models are compatible with tool Intel chipsets : Q865 From the mainstream models and Intel 975X from the performance models.

The Participants

 

Choosing the competitor for the QX6700 was a pretty difficult task. Thus, even though we have wanted to make Comparisons between the Kentsfield and the AMD response, this thing is impossible at the moment because of the lack of was similar solution from AMD. As a result we were needed to realize that test with another Intel model and we have invited for comparisons the Core 2 Extreme X6800, the strongest processor at the moment.

We have Made A large number and Deaver’s tests to see how the react in most working situations. We started with games, as it was normal and because these are what drive users towards replacing a computer or towards an upgrade. To see which are the processors performances Without them being influenced by the video cards we have first to ran tests at its low resolution and quality and then in normal working conditions. To analyze better the performances in games we have also used synthetic tests as 3DMark06 or Aquamark. The friede applications were filed by tasks meant to determine the power of processing as well as audio/video compression. The Multithreading tests where also present, based on running multiple tasks at the same time as well as video compressing while scanning the data with Kapersky Antivirus.

 

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THE RESULTS

 

as we expected at the games the QX6700 has been defeated By the X6800 Model, But this thing was not relevant because games In the present Don’t work with all the processor’s nucleus. Thus On lower resolution and low quality settings the results were not influenced strictly by the frequency of the processors. neither in the case of the archiving or audio/video Compression Things did not work so well For the Kentsfield, because the applications don’t know how to use all the resources of the processor. Also we can notice a bandwitdh Slightly smaller for the quad core than for His adversary In this test. The true power of the quad core models are noticed in the multi-cpu Rendition with CineBench 9.5 and in the processor tests in SiSoft Sandra 2005 and 3DMark06, where the QX6700 is much superior to the X6800.

Overclocking

 

This part of the test represents an aspect more and more important for a forever larger number of users. But overclocking operation was started with small steps, but after a few hours we have managed to obtain from the QX6700 a 3.52 GHz processor, while the memories where tacked at 880Mhz. The Kentsfield has impressed us with the capacity to run at a 32% higher frequency, the FSB of the X6800 was at 24% higher than before obtaining a working frequency of 3.63Ghz. The results were truly spectacular. Reducing the frequency difference between the 2 processors, we have reduced the differences in the tests where the Kentsfield has originally lost ground. Even tough the frequencies have been pushed to the limit for both processors, the temperatures have not passed 60 degrees Celsius.

Conclusion

 

Even tough during the past 3 years, AMD came out with better and better products, Intel has continued to follow its plan, losing less and less ground to its competitor. If a few months ago we could say that AMD has suffered a big blow from Intel when the latter has released the dual core models, now Intel strikes again, even harder than the first time, by introducing the first quad core processors for desktop computers.

Even tough the QX6700 seems to be inferior to the X6800, the reality shows a slightly different aspect. We have noticed that Kentsfield has lost to Conroe only in the aplications that don’t know how to work with multiple nucleus. At the moment there are not many applications available that can use all the resources of a Kentsfield and the Core 2 Extreme X6800 has better performances in the applications out on the market because of his higher frequency.

This 2 factors can give the impression that acquiring a quad core is useless at the moment, but this thing is not necessarily true, the processors with 4 nucleus beeing the best option for preparing for the next software evolution.