C2D E7200 comparison

Peter G. 22 May, 2008 at 10:23pm ET Article published in Tech

TweakTown compares the E7200 Penryn against the Phenom X3.

Comments

22 May 2008 ~ 10:59pm Your-Amish-Daddy I love Tweaktown's chart system. It makes me want to punch a baby.

Oh see here's an example I did. The two objects are like, 1-5 points off and they're kilometeres in distance from the other.

You know because .2 is so much that you have to space it like 80 pixels from the other or someone might think they're close!
22 May 2008 ~ 11:18pm BuddyJ I LOL'd like for reals. Your chart is awesome.
22 May 2008 ~ 11:18pm primesuspect lol

that is a fantastic chart. for real.
22 May 2008 ~ 11:19pm Your-Amish-Daddy Yeah isn't it? I laughed like a madman when I made it.
22 May 2008 ~ 11:20pm BuddyJ I'm still laughing.
22 May 2008 ~ 11:34pm Your-Amish-Daddy I need to stop picking on things. People enjoy what I do over seeing my point, which isn't a bad thing, because laughter owns and all that...God that's funny. I was actually thinking of using a fluoride laser instead of a fireball.
23 May 2008 ~ 1:39am _k Did you guys see how they spelled Duo Due in all the graphs. And "Today we are pitting Core 2 Duo against the AMD Phenom X3 8750 based processor. These two processors are aimed at the same market share. While the E8750 is clocked at 2.4GHz, we clocked the processor up to 2.5GHz by changing the multiplier to allow for a clock for clock comparison of the two different processors." I wish I had a E8750 but it looks like you don't get to much bang for your buck. And lastly I wonder if they got all three cores to rec in vista with the x3, cause isn't there an MoBo issue with them right now.
23 May 2008 ~ 2:58am Your-Amish-Daddy See, I'm not the only one who thinks Tweaktown is friggin' retarded.
23 May 2008 ~ 10:09am BuddyJ

_k_ wrote:

And lastly I wonder if they got all three cores to rec in vista with the x3, cause isn't there an MoBo issue with them right now.

Not an issue now.
23 May 2008 ~ 10:46am _k Ok cause I remember that all the first reviews of the x3 only 2 cores were recking in windows.
23 May 2008 ~ 11:01am BuddyJ Did you read Icrontic's review?
23 May 2008 ~ 11:26am Leonardo

See, I'm not the only one who thinks Tweaktown is friggin' retarded.

Not by a long shot!

People enjoy what I do over seeing my point

They understand immediately what your point is. Your chart is the quintessential 1000 words.
23 May 2008 ~ 11:50am _k no actually
23 May 2008 ~ 12:00pm Qeldroma Here's what caught my eye:

The AMD X3 uses 3 cores and a 65nm process,

the E7200 uses 2 cores and a 45nm process,

but they had nearly identical power marks....

Does it look like AMD has something over Intel here?

I also noticed that they didn't really use applications that stressed the number of cores and really, the CPUs were splitting hairs in many of the categories and the AMD was underclocked 1% compared to the Intel.
28 May 2008 ~ 12:01am Your-Amish-Daddy Well, AMD has always been very power efficient...Except for the Thunderbird.
28 May 2008 ~ 2:10pm lemonlime The power consumption results in the article surprise me. I'll have to take a look at my test results again, but I recall that my E8400/P35 test rig consumed quite a bit less than the X3 did. It has twice the cache of the E7200 as well. I didn't have time to include them as part of the review, unfortunately.