AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 980X)

Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9... by meroliph on Monday April 26, 2010 @11:28AM (#1295085)

To give people a rough idea, the 1055T X6 scores 5960 points on average in the PassMark benchmark while the i7 980X scores 10165.

As always, benchmarks are not useful for deciding how your application will perform on a certain CPU and you should do some tests for yourself, but considering the huge difference in this synthetic benchmark, I'd say some people would be willing to pay difference.

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Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9... by anigbrowl on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:17PM (#1295189)

Or you could just spend it on a second AMD machine. Intel certainly leads on raw power but that's certainly not the only consideration...is the Intel brand worth 3x the price after you normalize for performance? I think AMD will sell a ton of these.

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Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9... by tewks on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:24PM (#1295205)

The power consumption of two AMD machines over their lifespans, compared to that one Intel machine, might be an issue though I've not run any calculations.

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Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9... by anigbrowl on Monday April 26, 2010 @01:33PM (#1295384)

For a server farm, that is definitely a big issue. for office computers (not maxed out most of the time), the difference is pretty marginal IMHO.

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Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9... by randallsquared on Monday April 26, 2010 @01:17PM (#1295349)

3x the price after you normalize for performance

The relationship of price and performance is not linear.

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