Pentium 4 630 slower, more expensive claimIntel Pentium 4 630, EE 3.73GHz reviewedBy INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 02 February 2005, 10:38EVEN THOUGH Intel hasn't yet released its Pentium 4 6XX series, nor the Exscream Edition running at 3.73GHz, cheeky French web site X86 Secrets has reviewed them.We revealed last year that the 6XX series will have a bigger level two cache but the web site is claiming that the processor offers little performance boost. It also claims that EIST - a new version of Speedstep - is a cut down version, and it claims that EM64T, Intel's version of AMD64, is slower on this chip than on one from Advanced Micro Devices.It claims too that while the 6XX performance is zero to five per cent higher than a 530, the price delta is around 25 per cent.And, in startling news for Intel, if it turns out to be true, the Pentium 4 3.73GHz EE is slower than the 3.46GHz Pentium 4 EE on \"most benchmarks\". The site believes that results from a switch from the earlier and faster Northwood core to a slower Prescott core.These processors haven't yet been officially released, but are expected to surface in February. So the jury is out until we see what the rest of the hardware mob have to say.
Intel nForce 4 is a performance humbugCeBIT 2005Not up to AMD standardsBy Wil Harris: Friday 11 March 2005, 06:48WE HAVE some exclusive information for you about the performance of the nForce 4 Intel Edition chipset that GraphZilla launched to at SnowBIT today.Our exclusive benchmarks run today tell us that the top of the range Intel system running nForce 4 with 2 6800 Ultras scores fully 4000 less 3dMark05's than the top of the range AMD rig outfitted similarly. An Nvidia representative yelled to us that we 'Shouldn't compare Intel and AMD!!' Why, pray tell thee?At the press conference, Drew Henry from Nvidia stood up and showed the world 55 FPS on Doom 3 using the platform. He was in rapture, because he said that a single GeForce 6800 would only score 30FPS at these settings. We learned, however, that the scores are quite different and that Nvidia's original plan was to demonstrate the prowess of the platform by showing the frame rate with SLi turned off in the driver then turned on. However, with SLi off, the system scored 45FPS and with SLi on, the system scored 55FPS - hardly the 90% performance increase that Nvidia claim.Regardless of the launch of the Intel nForce platform, it's clear that Intel rigs still can't touch their AMD equivalents for gaming performance. We know that nForce 4 for AMD is the fastest gaming system out there. It's some hot shizzle, with 500,000 boards shipped by the end of this month.
