CPU Charts 2012: 86 Processors From AMD And Intel, Tested

[confish21]

this is great GJ!

 

[yavorkapitanov]

I am impressed by how affordable and powerful the 3770k is, so much bang for the buck its stunning to be sitting by extreme processors and even perform better in some cases.

 

[Darkerson]

I love my core i5-2500K. I have it at 5Ghz and she flies.

 

[rmpumper]

Still no need to upgrade my X6 1055T as the only reasonable performance increase in 3ds max rendering is with i7-3930K, but it only gives 30% faster rendering while costing 4X as much.

 

[Soda-88]

There's no such thing as i7 3930X, it's 3930K.

 

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

Tom's, I think you need to recheck the results on the iTunes "WAV to AAC" benchmark - the A10-5800K is listed as being 4 seconds faster than the FX-8350, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever:
http://media.bestofmicro.com/0/0/364176/original/res_app_itunes.png

I mean, when you have two processors with the same core architecture, isn't the faster CPU supposed to be the one with more cache and a higher clock-rate?

 

[BrightCandle]

CPU - Core 2 Duo T8300 (2.4Ghz)
Memory - 4GB PC-5300
GPU - 360m

As a comparison ran a few of the benchmarks on the olde laptop from 2008. It was a high end machine when it was bought, state of the art 64 bit and 4 GB of RAM. Its also a reasonable machine to run some benchmarks on to see just how far off a C2D is compared to todays machines:

CPU - Core 2 Duo T8300 (2.4Ghz)
Memory - PC-5300

SiSoft Sandra
Drystone = 25 GIPs
Whetstone = 16.22 GFLOPS
Memory bandwidth = 4.3GB/s

PCMark 7 Score = 1501

Cinebench 11.5
Singlethreaded = 0.74
Multithreaded = 1.39

 

[abbadon_34]

This info is 6 months old. Where is the Piledriver, it the first sizable improvement from AMD in years? Is Ivy bridge there and not Piledrivers because it's been out for awhile or to feed conspiracy theories? Intel doesn't need any more help. Or did the no name author's just compile existing data from the site and make it look new?

 

[abbadon_34]

My startling observation would be that in a few tests the did include the 8350, it actually beat all the i5 and a couple i7s on multithreaded productivity. That's something I'm seeing for the first time, not just comete against the i5 instead i3, but positioned between the current i5 and i7.

 

[jemm]

Wow!

It is really a great and a hard work!

It is nice to break it through several benchmarks tools, and apps, so that we are able to see how each CPU performances in a given field, but what I would like to see, based upon all separate results, is a general CPU result, like the former CPU Hierarchy Chart .

 

[Memnarchon]

I thought that Conroe and Kentsfield were the first generation desktop core architecture.

 

[amoralman]

Great, but for product comparison (CPU & GPU), since I've found this site my life's changed :

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

You can really see how your gear looks compared to new one.

 

[amoralman]

w w w .anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

 

[rolli59]

No surprises.

 

[dgingeri]

It's funny. People accuse Intel of changing the sockets too often, yet, if you look at the same span of time, AMD has gone through just as many sockets as Intel:

Intel: 775, 1156, 1366, 1155, 2011
AMD: AM2+, AM3, AM3+, FM1, FM2

At least Intel kept the value range server socket and the mainstream desktop socket the same. AMD didn't do that much.

 

[Guest]

@dgingeri

FM1 and FM2 are not continuing but expanding the desktop segment at this moment. - Chronological, AM2+ up to AM3+ represent counterparts to Intels 775 - 2011.

 

[Guest]

thanks for the handy "pocket reference"


is it now "egg nog" time in the office? but i think someone is opting for a nap instead . .

 

[fw1374]

Piledriver?

 

[Guest]

No AMD FX-83xx series listed here? Pfft.

 

[de5_Roy]

i guess i am the one(!) of the very few(!!) who sees an fx8350 and an a10 5800k (Both based on Piledriver arch) in the charts. the writers even say why they didn't include pd fx cpus.
or these c.a.l.f.s don't even read the article before they start complaining...

 

[tipoo]

[citation][nom]amdfangirl[/nom]Sometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase.[/citation]

I agree completely.

 

[tipoo]

[citation][nom]mckertis[/nom]BF3 ? No. However, i can tell you, that my 2.4 Northwood machine is still just about enough to watch Youtube in 720p, and with the last AGP cards it is enough to play most anything up to 2009, like, say, Dragon Age.[/citation]


I have a 2.8GHz P4 that struggles even with 480p on youtube, but that's with an x1600 Pro graphics card so no youtube acceleration, which is probably why yours can play it.

Bioshock 1 was even borderline playable on it, but I would not reccomend the experience.

 

[deepblue08]

[citation][nom]abbadon_34[/nom]This info is 6 months old. Where is the Piledriver, it the first sizable improvement from AMD in years? Is Ivy bridge there and not Piledrivers because it's been out for awhile or to feed conspiracy theories? Intel doesn't need any more help. Or did the no name author's just compile existing data from the site and make it look new?[/citation]

Piledriver? Sizeable improvement? If you call that sizeable, than AMD is in a worse place than I thought.

 

[tipoo]

[citation][nom]deepblue08[/nom]Piledriver? Sizeable improvement? If you call that sizeable, than AMD is in a worse place than I thought.[/citation]


Well, it does go from almost certainly a bad value for most tasks, to decent for the price. That's an improvement. It doesn't win back the performance crown, but no one expected that.

 

[Guest]

"Sometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase. "

Ditto the above.

The sad truth is tho, it would be depressing. There just isnt that huge of an improvement. Sure there is, but its been like 10 years since the a64 and for 10 years, its kinda a joke, compared to the pervious 10 years before that.