Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 and Massive Price Cuts
by Anand Lal Shimpi on July 16, 2007 3:04 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
$160 Battle: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ vs. Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
In our last AMD vs. Intel battle of the day, we've got the Core 2 Duo E6550, a newcomer at 2.33GHz vs. the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+. The price point is around $160, and the stakes are high but once again, AMD is up against stiffer competition. The X2 5600+ used to be priced at the Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86GHz) level, but now it's up against a 2.33GHz bohemoth by comparison.
The X2 5600+ manages to pull three wins, besting the E6550 under Cinebench, Lightwave and one of the Lost Planet tests, but it is still no match for its competition at this point. The 5600+ used to hang with the Core 2 Duo E6300, but its new competitor has a 25% higher clock and will have a price parity as of next week. Our recommendation stands.
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xsilver - Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - link
One question has still yet to be answered:how far does the e6850 overclock vs how far the q6600 overclocks
from previous articles the q6600 doesnt reach much beyond 3ghz unless you have supercooling?
but the e6850?
Slash3 - Monday, July 16, 2007 - link
I know this is a bit after the fact, but would it be possible on the "vs" charts, to plot the negative performance improvements (read: performance loss) in a left-of-center fashion, instead of having both extending to the right of zero, with a negative sign tacked on? It makes it pretty difficult to scan visually. Go from -100 to 0 to +100 in the same X axis, and just increase the granularity a bit to fit things on, in cases where there are significant negative values. The E6850 vs Q6600 is a good example. Negative and positive, all over the place. Just friendly commentary. Excellent writeup, otherwise. :)DerekWilson - Monday, July 16, 2007 - link
as was explored in a previous video artilce, we could simply add 100 to each of these and compare the bars with 100 percent meaning eqivalent performance. negatives would be less than 100 while positives would be greater than 100 ...personally, i don't mind the negaive numbers in a different color paradigm. if the readers would prefer the "centered at 100%" style, we will certainly adapt.
i don't know how the other editors here feel, but marketing guys like to show us graphs around 100% performance of something ... because of that, it just ends up feeling wrong to me. :-)
dev0lution - Monday, July 16, 2007 - link
No red lines? That's a pretty impressive lineup for the prices Intel has. Looks like there might be Q6600 in my future very soon :)tuteja1986 - Monday, July 16, 2007 - link
where is this price cut.. i don't seem em in newegg.webdawg77 - Monday, July 16, 2007 - link
July 22ndDerekWilson - Monday, July 16, 2007 - link
fixed the red lines issueThatguy97 - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - link
back then i stuck to dual core with my e6600 going all the way up to 4ghz ish speeds