With the development of hardware technology, hardware replacement rate is accelerating.With the emergence of new generation of products, a lot of flagship product become normal products.When internal structure of processor changed, the performance of new generation processor will be substantially better than previous generation.

So a lot of friends will have this question: Since the new generation processor performance will increase significantly over the previous generation, Will todays entry-level processor performance beyond flagship processors of previous generation products?

"2 VS 2"

For this problem, we also are very interested and would like to find out.So we found two previous generation flagship product, Intel and AMD each have one.We found Intel Pentium XE 955,If you familiar with "XE" you will know these two letters means "Extreme Edition",Its a top-level product,In 2006,the price of this processor is $999 ; AMD camp ,the processor is Athlon64 FX-62, "FX" also represents AMDs enthusiast product, Athlon64 FX-62 in 2006 also was the most high-end processor of AMD,The price was $1031.

Pentium XE 955 and Athlon64 FX-62 all are 4 years old, while now Intel and AMD popular entry-level products are naturally Pentium Dual Core and AthlonII X2 Series.After consideration, we chose Pentium Dual Core E5300 (reference price is $63)and Athlon II X2 240 (reference price is $53) These two products will compete with Pentium XE 955 and Athlon64 FX-62.

Pentium XE 955 core clock up to 3.46GHz and support Hyper-Threading Technology

Pentium Dual Core E5300 　

In this test，Pentium XE 955 as the last high-end processor of P4 NetBurst architecture products ,the core clock is up to 3.46GHz,support Hyper-Threading technology.And the rival Pentium Dual Core E5300 is a dual-core Core2 architecture standard products, core clock is 2.6GHz,In fact Pentium Dual Core E5000 series specifications was same with early Core2 E4000 series.