Overclocked AMD equivalent to what?

[TheBeelzebub]

I've been told by people that their Core2 blows my stuff away or that their AMD FX series blows mine away etc. I believe they are numb. At certain cases, I can see the Core2 doing better, but only at a certain clock speed.

Right now my AMD Venice 3200 is running at 2700mhz(been at this speed for a year) and I am wondering what models of AMD and Intel it is equivalent to. I know the X2 5200 runs at 2600mhz, so would my processor be faster for gaming? I am only concerned about gaming here, and I understand that games utilize 1 core and not 2 currently.

 

[Arcygenical]

Yes, most games only use 1 core. Some games, and lots coming up, are starting to use more .

Anyways, at 2700mhz your chip would be marginally faster than the FX-55 at 2600 mhz. Clock for clock, any processor with the same amount of L2 Cache and clockspeed as yours will be equally fast as yours, within the AMD 64 lineup.

A 2600mhz X2 is beaten by an E6300 at 1.9ghz in SuperPi. Your processor at 2700 will come about equal.

 

[TheBeelzebub]

I'm glad thats how it is because it gives me more time until the point of where I need to upgrade. Games which can use multiple cores will most likely come out next year. I'm hoping that the utilization of multiple cores is for the physics processing. That way people who have a second ATI card(like my x850xtpe) can be recycled into the physics card and I don't have to change my processor, motherboard and ram.