greenmedic88 on 06 August 2009
The CBE cell is currently about a $50 processor, most likely less once transitioned to a 45nm die process.
Surprised to see that it matches a $220 CPU like the Q9550. And a bit more than 10% slower than a $1600 QX9770.
Even more surprised to see that a QX9775 processes about 30% faster than a i7 965 in Folding.
That seems more than just a bit suspect considering that according to that chart the QX9770 provides only slightly more than 50% of the QX9775 processing ability.
I'm going to assume the QX9775 benchmark is running on a LGA 771 Skulltrail board with two CPUs running in parallel.
If anything, this confirms what many already know: Intel Extreme chips are ridiculously overpriced for what you pay for.
