Intel Dual Core Performance Preview Part II: A Deeper Look

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• JoKeRr - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link

  the power consumption is a series mofo here.
  
  hm, with a P4 EE or PDEE, with 2 6800Ultra or GT, you're definitely expecting an oven case.
  
  Wonder how those dualcores overclock-->that should help to make up the single thread performance. On the other hand, Clearly HyperThreading is GOOD, but AMD still says NO.

• Jeff7181 - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link

  Great article. Well done guys.
  
  The only thing I have to question is how a dual core Athlon-64 at encoding. On the last page you say, "For encoding performance, you still can’t beat the Pentium D. Even a dual core Athlon 64 isn’t going to help enough in that area."
  
  What makes you think that when the 2.2 GHz Athlon-64 is RIGHT behind the 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 630?
  
  Everything I've read so far has told me that the Athlon-64 should scale better than the Pentium 4 as far as dual cores are concerned... so... what exactly are you basing your opinion that even a dual core Athlon-64 won't help in encoding???

• Lonyo - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link

  Does http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?... page have an error?
  It lists the PD 3.2, P4 3.73 EE and the PD 3.2 EE, not the 3 CPU's montioned in the article. Wrong graph maybe.

• Rys - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link

  H isn't even near P on the keyboard...

• michaelpatrick33 - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link

  Holy crispy power and cook my eggs in true multitasking while I surf the net Batman

• smn198 - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link

  I guess it makes sense that NCQ would help when multitasking. I assume that this would be the same on single cores as well? The new focus on responsiveness is a good move IMO. The time to switch between apps and redraw the screen and clicking on menus and buttons is what frustrates me when I am multitasking.