04-10-2016, 10:57 PM
Well, the 6-core PII was clocked at only 3.3GHz by default. IIRC, overclocking it gave greater relative gains per MHz than overclocking bulldozer/piledriver CPUs. The 4-core PII's could be overclocked a bit higher than the 6-core ones while remaining stable under 100% usage, and made great sense as most games still don't use more than 4 threads anyway. But then again, other things like lower stock DDR3 clock standards used for benchmarks, PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0, etc.. all detracted as well. The latest Piledriver benchmark probably used DDR3-1866 as stock default (Anandtech states 1866MHz, but does not state anything for PII in that most recent review)...
Most importantly, it was the paltry 3.3GHz stock clock for the PII, with no turbo... there could've been massive gain at 4+GHz, while an overclocked Piledriver at 5GHz showed abysmal proportional gains over a piledriver running at 4GHz.
Most importantly, it was the paltry 3.3GHz stock clock for the PII, with no turbo... there could've been massive gain at 4+GHz, while an overclocked Piledriver at 5GHz showed abysmal proportional gains over a piledriver running at 4GHz.