I'm surprised to see how well the Wolfdale C2D fared. It even stood up to the Haswell i7 in two tests Oo

That core 2 duo is insane

Take notice that this is only single threaded benchmark.

kixs wrote:

Take notice that this is only single threaded benchmark.

This is true. Also note that the E8400 was overclocked to 3.6 GHz at the time of the benchmark. What the results show, however, is that core clocks and instructions per clock have shown little improvement over the past seven years.

Was the i7 kept at 3.4GHz or at the turbo speed of 3.9? If it was at 3.9 then its FPU is actually slower per clock oO

alexanrs wrote:

Was the i7 kept at 3.4GHz or at the turbo speed of 3.9? If it was at 3.9 then its FPU is actually slower per clock oO

I did not disable Turbo Boost in the BIOS, but I also did not check to see that it was working.

Pretty sure it used Turbo.

I remember a drop in performance when going from a fast Wolfdale to an i5. 3D Mark 2001SE scores were much better on the Core 2 Duo.

It won't load for me. All I see is blanks where the benches are supposed to be.

But I have to say, I am not surprised. Intel really drove it home with Core2
Ironically, it was based loosely on Pentium 3. They had to ditch the P4 arch

Are these tests only CPU bound or would memory settings affect them significantly? Though I can't imagine the C2D using faster memory than the i7, unless you use some really old sub-1333MHz DDR3 modules.

Also, this basically means that, after seven years, AMD still hasn't managed to catch up to the Core2 architecture... which is kind of sad as I used to really like AMD in the Netburst era.

Well the benchmark is missing high end and current AMD chips but can't blame the OP, not everyone has such chips lying around.

philscomputerlab wrote:

Well the benchmark is missing high end and current AMD chips but can't blame the OP, not everyone has such chips lying around.

Yeah, I was just drawing conclusions from the fact that AMD has a real bad speed/clock ratio compared to SB/IB/Haswell, and how well the C2D stands up in that aspect compared to its newer sibilings.

Anyway, once I get back home from my trip I'd be happy to run those benchmarks on a few processors (MMX200, i7 2600, i3 3220, i7 4790k, Socket 754 Athlon 64 3000+ and a Conroe C2D E6700)

smeezekitty wrote:

It won't load for me. All I see is blanks where the benches are supposed to be.

Sorry to hear that. I've heard that other people have had issues with Google Charts; perhaps a different browser would help.

maximus wrote:

smeezekitty wrote:

It won't load for me. All I see is blanks where the benches are supposed to be.

Sorry to hear that. I've heard that other people have had issues with Google Charts; perhaps a different browser would help.

I got it working in internet exploder on the first page 😵
The second page shows

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Any chance of stock clocked Core2 tests?

I am surprised the Pee4 did as well as it did in the ZLib test.
Of course it got creamed in the Fibonacci test

alexanrs wrote:

I'm surprised to see how well the Wolfdale C2D fared. It even stood up to the Haswell i7 in two tests Oo

Wolfdales are awesome. I had a Pentium Dual Core E6300 in my main rig for a while, overclocked it to 4GHz. Currently, I'm running a Core 2 Duo E8500, which is similar but with more cache, SSE4.1 support, and higher FSB support.

smeezekitty wrote:

Any chance of stock clocked Core2 tests?

Charts updated. Sorry that some are still not working for you 🙁

I'm still impressed by the Wolfdale, specially because I've read a Wolfdale vs Ivy Bridge article a while ago with different results here. The stock E8400 got beat even by the Ivy Bridge Celeron.

Do you have a PDF or image files of the results? The charts aren't loading for me either.

feipoa wrote:

Do you have a PDF or image files of the results? The charts aren't loading for me either.

Guess the charts are not ready for prime time. Here's a direct link to the spreadsheet for anyone who's having trouble:

CPU Benchmarks

They seem to be working now.
The core 2 duo is awesome.