3A against I/N: AMD Phenom X3 8650 VS. Intel Core 2 Duo E8200

INPAI Report

Published on 2008/12/2 by Hardspell

Category:CPU
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Integrated systems are the best choice for the entry segment users, it is cheap and it also can satisfy with the daily requirements. The performances of the integrated systems are getting better and better according the technology developing, and now it also can realize the entertainment requires.

If you want to choose integrated system then will you choose Intel of AMD platform? It is easy to answer this question: because in many of our test have proved that the 3A platforms are better. 3A platforms integrated the AMD CPU and ATI GPU technology advantages, then the AMD motherboards’ performances are getting better and better from 690G, 780G to 790GX, while Intel GPU technology is not so good and its platforms compatibility and performances are not so well.

Can MCP7A added in Intel platforms challenge the 3A platforms?

From the tests before we found MCP7A is the best chipset for Intel platforms. When MCP7A motherboards launched market, AMD and Intel integrated platforms will start the new battle. Which one will be better?

PhenomX3 8650 strengthened AMD power

Currently, AMD Phenom X3 8650 hit the market and its core name is Toliman, 65nm, 1.264V, AM2+ socket, 2.3GHz, FSB 200MHz, multiplier 11.5 and it supports Hyper Transport 3.0, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A and X86-64. Its each core has L1 and L2 caches and they are 64Kbytes and 512Kbytes. The 3 cores shared 2MB L3 caches. The core clock of PhenomX3 8650 is 200MHz higher than PhenomX3 8450, so its performances will be better than PhenomX3 8450.

The price of PhenomX3 8650 is about 100$ in current and it is close with the Intel E8200, so we used the two kinds of CPU. The motherboards AMD used 790GX while Intel used MCP7A. Their prices are all about 100$ but there is also 85$ 790GX in the market, too.

Article Index

PAGE 01:-Integrated platforms: new members add in continuously
PAGE 02:-Test setup and introductions
PAGE 03:-Wprime 1.54 performances test
PAGE 04:-CineBench R10 performances test
PAGE 05:-MainConcept H.264 performances test
PAGE 06:-3DMark 06
PAGE 07:-Half-Life2 Episode Two
PAGE 08:-Far Cry 2
PAGE 09:-Red Alert 3
PAGE 10:-HD replay test: H.264 The World Natural Heritage
PAGE 11:-HD replay test: VC-1 The Matrix
PAGE 12:-3A system is still better

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