Web News: AMD: dual-core not for gamers... yet

Lokie · 23-April-05, 11:22 AM

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	So the chip maker said today. According to John Harris, AMD's head of marketing in North America, despite the performance benefits that the X2's extra core brings, "the Athlon 64 FX is still the best processor for gaming." Harris' reasoning is that until games start being coded for multiple processors, which he reckons won't happen until next year, you'll get better game performance out of the single-core chip. Right now, the FX-55 is clocked at 2.6GHz. The top-of-the-range X2 4800+ is only clocked at 2.4GHz. Both chips' cores have 1MB of L2 cache and connect to the system via a single HyperTransport link. If a game is single-threaded, it will at any given time be running on only one of the two available cores. So the FX has that 200MHz advantage. That said, the FX is also having to process all the other threads running alongside the single-thread game whereas the X2 can at least run them on its second core, essentially granting the game a better crack of the single-core whip. Is that enough to make up for or even exceed the FX's 200MHz advantage?

j-dogg · 23-April-05, 11:40 AM

I love how AMD has to compete against itself.

TYCOON · 23-April-05, 12:45 PM

Fine with me, when the time comes, il be happy to get a 5000+

CubanConnectionZ · 23-April-05, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by j-dogg


	I love how AMD has to compete against itself.

Yeah there is a irony with that.

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