I stand correctedFëanor;9137545 said:I found the benchmarks of the two new Phenom II X6 rather unimpressive. The Phenom II X4 955 is still the king of performance per $.
www.anandtech.com said:TigerDirect Offers $50 MIR on Phenom II X6 CPUs
Early this morning AMD officially launched its first six-core Thuban processors: the Phenom II X6 1090T and 1055T. The last thing we would dream of doing is complain about pricing on these parts. AMD is selling you almost a billion transistors for $199 or $285 depending on what clock speed you want.
AMD just sent us word that the pricing story gets even better. TigerDirect is running a $50 mail in rebate on the new X6 processors dropping the price down to $149.99 and $249.99 for the 1055T and 1090T, respectively. While we're not huge fans of mail in rebates, if you're fine with getting a check in the mail sometime later then you honestly can't beat these deals. At $149.99 there simply is no answer to AMD's Phenom II X6 1055T.
Fëanor;9139603 said:@$149.99 the 1055T is now the![]()
What about these new Dual Core I5 processors? I5-860 for example, 3.6 GHz for 300 Euro.
Fëanor;9150136 said:Intel's new naming scheme can be pretty confusing for anyone that doesn't follow the computer hardware world regularly.
the i5-750 and the i7-860 are basically the same processor (Lynnfield), the difference is that on the i5-750 the Intel Turbo Boost and CPU multiplier are slightly lower (meaning less MHz)and HyperThreading is disabled.
Compared to other i5 processors, the i5-750 lacks an integrated GPU and has 4 cores instead of 2.
Performance wise the i5-750 is very good and @$200 its really the only Intel processor that offers a price/performance ratio close to AMD's offerings.
That's a really bad deal. The i5-750 is currently the best bang-for-the-buck processor intel offers. Its massively overclockable and even at stock speeds its a respectable processor. Best of all, it's only 200 USD right now.
Your model numbers and speeds are also a bit off. The 860 is an i7 part, and it's stock speed is 2.8ghz, not 3.6
Sorry, I mixed the two numbers there, I meant the new i5-680, which has only two cores, but 3.6 GHz, which is the highest of all the cpus, so it should be best for Civ4, right? And probably Civ5, too.
Fëanor;9152605 said:the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T paired with a 890GX motherboard (Radeon HD 4290 IGP) gives vastly superior productivity performance at the same price.
Fëanor;9156095 said:Considerably better than on Intels GMA HD.
But i seriously doubt that anyone whom has to get a Workstation with an IGP would be allowed to install and play Civ5 on it.
Yeah, it's like comparing a Pentium IV to a Core 2Fëanor;9156095 said:Considerably better than on Intels GMA HD.
But i seriously doubt that anyone whom has to get a Workstation with an IGP would be allowed to install and play Civ5 on it.
Okay, but you know, I play only civ and manager games - do I need to care about FPS?
So maybe IGP will be enough for me? Or a little card like HD5670 or even HD5570?
Yeah, it's like comparing a Pentium IV to a Core 2
AMD own ATI so their Integrated GPUs are awesome
okay, more like Core vs. Core 2Fëanor;9156489 said:You could probably be able to run Civ5 on the latest generation IGP if you turn all the eye candy out, the HD5570 will probably run Civ5 with some decent eye candy on, but since you can get the much more powerful HD5670 for the same price (70-80, the cheapest HD5670 is actually 3.35 cheaper than the cheapest HD5570 here in the Netherlands) that would be a considerably better budget card. Mainstream gaming cards start from 95 with the much better HD5750 and for 115 you can get the HD5770 which is practically twice as fast as the HD5670 and can probably run Civ5 with most options on. (After that prices jump to 200/240 which cant obviously be called mainstream gaming anymore).
The latest Intel IGP (GMA HD) is vastly superiour to his predecessors but still noticeably inferiour (10-30%) to AMD/ATI's latest offering, the only advantage right now is the much lower power consumption of the Intel solution. That will likely remain the case until next year's AMD Fusion processors are released.
Ironically the ones hurt most by these developments are nVidia, with their chipset based IGP becoming obsolete (was 25% of their revenue) and an apparently failing strategy to replace that with lines of OEM only cards (eg GT300) they really need to re-invent themselves or end up like S3 (Maybe Intel would buy them, they could sure use the GPU technology, much better than the Larrabee approach).