Intel will walk all over AMD with its upcoming Core 2 Quadro processor. Its 8 MB L2 Cache and aggressive clock speeds will boost performance by up to 100%. Our benchmarks tell the story.
Intel zipped up the FSB speed for the Core 2 Quadro to 333 MHz compared with the 266 MHz for Core 2 Duo. Our test results reveal that a FSB1333 (true 333 MHz) does not entail advantages - at least not based on the tests at a CPU clock speed of 2.66 GHz. At CPU clock speeds of 3.0 GHz and above, and memory speeds beyond the DDR2-1000 mark (true 500 MHz), the FSB1333 shows what it is capable of.
It certainly makes sense to increase the front side bus to FSB1333, since each Core 2 "Conroe" processor has to use this bus to communicate with the other one and fetch or write L2 cache data, especially when many applications run simultaneously (aka multitasking). Speeds such as those pose no problem for 90-nm chipsets.
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Intel zipped up the FSB speed for the Core 2 Quadro to 333 MHz compared with the 266 MHz for Core 2 Duo. Our test results reveal that a FSB1333 (true 333 MHz) does not entail advantages - at least not based on the tests at a CPU clock speed of 2.66 GHz. At CPU clock speeds of 3.0 GHz and above, and memory speeds beyond the DDR2-1000 mark (true 500 MHz), the FSB1333 shows what it is capable of.
It certainly makes sense to increase the front side bus to FSB1333, since each Core 2 "Conroe" processor has to use this bus to communicate with the other one and fetch or write L2 cache data, especially when many applications run simultaneously (aka multitasking). Speeds such as those pose no problem for 90-nm chipsets.
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