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Intel Itanium 2 Benchmarks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-and-faster-she-goes dept.

Pablo writes "Over at VR-Zone we saw some interesting benchmarks of the upcoming Intel Itanium 2 processor codenamed McKinley that is on schedule to be launched during second half of this year. With a faster 3MB on-die L3 cache, 6 instructions/cycle and 6.4GB/s of bandwidth, it is poised to perform at 1.5-2x of the current Itanium processor. There is an overview of how the Intel Itanium 2 at 1Ghz clock frequency will perform against the current Itanium 800Mhz and Sun's Ultra Sparc III RISC processor."

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  1. Re:AMD by robburt · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least the Itanium is large enough for me to put my coffee cup on to keep it warm. =)

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  2. Cool, but... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 3, Funny

    does it make the intraweb go faster?

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  3. Itanium 2? by sharkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    The first Itanic sank ALREADY?

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  4. Bad codename for a next-gen processor by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Previous McKinleys haven't fared very well.

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  5. I'm getting interesting error messages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    CPU is unworkable or be changed, please resetting