Jason Dunn
07-31-2006, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2800&p=8' target='_blank'>http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2800&p=8</a><br /><br /></div><i>"It is clear enough that despite the poorer memory bandwidth, Core 2 Duo is the performance leader by a substantial margin at stock speeds. You have seen that in all of the results posted in this article. This conclusion will not satisfy all our readers, however. Many have theorized every incarnation of performance imaginable with AM2 having higher clock speed, higher bandwidth, or higher speed memory than it currently does. To best answer these questions we put together the fairest comparison we could think of to directly compare Core 2 Duo and AMD AM2. This consists of running both processors at the exact same speed - 2.93GHz - achieved at the same ratios - 11x266. This involves overclocking the AM2 FX62 to 2.93GHz and raising the "bus" speed to 266. That allows an 11x266 ratio to match Core 2 Duo."</i><br /><br />AnandTech has great articles, but quite often I skip ahead to the conclusion or just the section that answers my question: here's one such article, and it shows that the Core 2 Duo is an impressive CPU. AMD is going to have to do more than crank up their clock speed in order to compete with the Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs.