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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 231.80+1.7%Jan 16 3:59 PM EST
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To: wbmw who wrote (237552)7/28/2007 4:24:07 PM
From: NicoVRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
Starting in June, Intel closed that gap with Celeron 400 series and Pentium 2000 series, both of which offer better perf/$ and perf/watt than AMD's parts.

I never considered this, I thought with the current X2 prices there's no reason to buy a single core cpu. So I looked for a review comparing these processors, I found one here :http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=663&p=8 comparing 2Ghz Semprons with Celerons.

This is their conclusion:
while the synthetic CPU tests did favour the Celeron 440, there was actually very little difference between the two processors
That said, because the Celeron 440 is based on the Conroe-L architecture we expected this processor to leave the Sempron 3600+ behind when it came time to overclock these processors. Interestingly it was the Sempron that hit great heights with ease and despite its 62 watt thermal design, the AMD budget processor actually ran cooler than the Celeron when overclocked.

As to pricing, these are my local shop's prices:
Celeron 2 Ghz 61,5 euro
A64 2.4 Ghz 61,5 euro
X2 2.1 GHz 65 euro
Sempron 2Ghz 38,5 euro
E2160 1.8 GHz 85 euro
X2 2.3 Ghz 82 euro

So it's clear that Intel's low end offering doesn't provide better perf/$ and perf/watt than AMD's parts.
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