{"id":334,"date":"2006-08-23T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/22\/cpu-performancecost-ratio\/"},"modified":"2007-02-07T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T09:41:48","slug":"cpu-performancecost-ratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/23\/cpu-performancecost-ratio\/","title":{"rendered":"CPU: Performance\/Cost ratio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to TG daily (Tom&#8217;s Hardware) we have a clearer view of the performance\/cost ratio of dual-core processors these days (after the arrival of the cost cuts both from AMD and Intel).<\/p>\n<p><center><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/060821_dual-core_chart.jpg\" title=\"Dual core CPU performance\/cost ratios\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/060821_dual-core_chart.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dual core CPU performance\/cost ratios\"\/><\/a><br \/><small>Click on the thumbnail<br \/>to open a larger graph.<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Things get clearer now. It becomes quite obvious that the old Pentium EE is completely out of the game today.<\/p>\n<p>In the entry market (less than 200$), it is clear that the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and Athlon 64 X2 4200+ are really alone in front of the ageing Pentium D offer. But, around 250$, the Core 2 Duo E6400 from Intel are nicely set to attack the Athlon 64 X2 4600+ from AMD.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, when looking at 350$ or more, there are only the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme from Intel left with a good performance\/price ratio (but the cost is so prohibitive for a mere CPU that I wonder who&#8217;s really buying at this price point &#8211; at least, I don&#8217;t know any real buyer here ; You can tell me).<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the information is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/2006\/08\/21\/intel_core2duo_e6400_invades_amd_territory\/\">the original article at TG daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to TG daily (Tom&#8217;s Hardware) we have a clearer view of the performance\/cost ratio of dual-core processors these days (after the arrival of the cost cuts both from AMD and Intel). Click on the thumbnailto open a larger graph. Things get clearer now. It becomes quite obvious that the old Pentium EE is completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpu-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}