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Conroe, the Core 2 Duo E6300/E6400 era in 2006, is where Intel definitively took the crown away from AMD. And AMD never got close to it again until Zen/Zen2. I
by kllrnohj 7y ago
Conroe, the Core 2 Duo E6300/E6400 era in 2006, is where Intel definitively took the crown away from AMD. And AMD never got close to it again until Zen/Zen2.
Intel's much better prefetcher let them get away without having an integrated memory controller. https://www.anandtech.com/show/2045/5 https://www.anandtech.com/show/2045/5
- thedance 7y agoClovertown was basically two Core 2 Duos in a multi-chip module, and capable of multi-socket system configs. The AMD fans at the time snickered at the MCM, for being a hack and a workaround, not a "true" quad core part. AMD didn't launch the "true" quad core server part until a year after Clovertown. That was the "Barcelona" Opteron 23xx, and it was terrible, and broken. To me that was when AMD faded.