This is a small article on the AMD Radeon RX 6600 8GB vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB video cards. I include a hand full of DX 11 and DX 12 games and tests to get an idea of how they compare to each other. I didn’t have much time with the system and didn’t have many games to work with. But I provided what I could.
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AMD PHENOM 9550 x4 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Review
This article compares the AMD Phenom 9550 to the Core2 Quad Q6600. These are first generation entry level quad-core processors from both AMD and Intel.
It’s kind of hard to believe how old these CPU’s are now, at least in computer time. Intel’s “Conroe” architecture hit the market around August of 2006 taking the performance crown that AMD held for quite a long time. Although Intel was the first to release a quad-core (4-Cores) CPU via the MCM approach, AMD was the first to release a quad-core based on a native design. While they both have their advantages/disadvantages, with some mentioned below, in the end performance and price is what mattered to the end user.
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AMD’s K6-2 CPU’s were a pretty big deal in 1998. The CPU’s was still going to use the Socket 7 platform with no on-die/on-package L2 cache and depend on the motherboard based cache, but AMD was aware that their new CPU’s wouldn’t cut it when it comes to performance using the same ole Socket 7 standard vs the competition. The Pentium II was flexing very well and in part do to their better L2 (Level 2) Cache setup which ran 1/2 the Core’s clock speed. Hence, even the lower clocked 266 MHz P II had it’s L2 Cache running at 133 MHz which is much higher than the standard Socket 7 motherboard cache. And the 2nd generation Celeron (Mendocino) in August ’98 was going to bring strong performance at a lower price and likely be more of a threat to AMD since the cost of the Pentium 2’s were on the high side.
