AMD's 65nm Brisbane Core Previewed: The most energy efficient AMD CPU to date
by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 14, 2006 6:08 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Media Encoding Performance & Power Consumption - Continued
Our final two encoding tests are, as always, Quicktime for testing H.264 encode performance and iTunes for testing multi-threaded MP3 encode performance.
Quicktime paints the same picture we've seen with WME and DivX, so there are no surprises here:
Rounding out our encoding tests we have similar standings with our iTunes performance test:
Power consumption is a bit lower on 65nm, but Intel still has a bit of a power advantage here with the E6600.
Performance per watt of course goes to Intel, not necessarily due to advantages in power consumption but rather the inherent performance advantage of the Core architecture.
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smitty3268 - Thursday, December 14, 2006 - link
Yes, I would have appreciated a lower end Core 2 Duo that is more comparable performance-wise as well as the 6600 which matches it's price.Basically, it looks like the new process is only a bit better than the old energy efficient chips, but is clocked higher and will be sold cheaper. The important thing for AMD is probably to get their 65nm process ramped up and have all the bugs ironed out for a good K8L launch.
Accord99 - Thursday, December 14, 2006 - link
What's the problem? The Core 2 Duo gives you both.lollichop - Sunday, February 26, 2017 - link
Wow! Ancient chip fanboys.