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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."

8 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. am I? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Is this the first post? I think it is, yay!

    There is no spoon.

  2. jESUS was a monkey!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    monkey piss i tells ya!

  3. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The time you thought you needed to be Kreskin to predict BSD is dying, is over.
    Why? I'll tell you why. It's no secret. BSD is dying. Yes, that's right,
    BSD is dying and netcratf confirms it.

    The estimated number of BSD users is 100 and that is consitent with the
    number of usenet postings. BSD was a plot to divide the open source movement
    and now it is dead.

    Microsoft is next.

    The flamewarrior

  4. Re:No benchmarks by Bnonn · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    • No benchmarks (Score:3)
      [...]
      Mod Me down Please

    So, you worked out that asking to be modded down has a magical modding-up effect humm?

    Mod me down please.

  5. Re:I'm ashamed of you guys by OS24Ever · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Read further up the chain a bit, I did, you just have to click on the message to see it.

    --

    As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.

  6. Re:AMD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you kidding, if you put your coffee cup on it, your coffee will boil out in a couple of minutes and the cup will crack soon after that!!!

  7. Pay no attention to community moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What it means is that I was so curious about how carefully the Slashdot community can separate fact from fiction that I slapped together a paragraph of readable yet complete nonsense to see if it would ever get noticed. It did, eventually, but not before it floated up four points in the general moderation rush that accomodates a story.

    So, cheers to you for picking up on that and risking a Flamebait to point it out (well, one of the bullshit indicators I dropped in anyway).

    Sorry, folks, but you've all been had. Outside of the kick I've gotten from thinking about how somebody's going to try impressing others with his knowledge of the 'die-control' mechanism, I actually had a slightly larger purpose for dropping a post like this in the next generic 'faster CPU' story that came up.

    I've often seen accounts that claim to either be from a particular company or to have the inside scoop rocket up in score quicker than comments that, well, actually contain something tangible. Lately, I've questioned how pure something like Slashdot (or really any partially-community-run online forum) would be from P.R. lackeys either FUDing a story or pumping a product they're planning to promote. So, I figured, the best way to test the waters for susceptibility to these scenarios is to post a comment that can obviously be proven to be factually incorrect in a couple of spots with Google and see how quickly it gets torn apart.

    People, the mods failed miserably. The comment not only survived, but it almost hit the highest rating by reaching +4. Oh, I'm sure it'll be modbombed NOW when there's absolutely no benefit and it'll take the points away that could be spent promoting a decent comment in a different thread, but it's too late for the mods to prove that this will not become (continue to be) an effective karma whoring and perception management technique for weeks to come. So surround yourself with a healthy bit of skepticism, drop your comment threshold to -1, and take everything you read on here with a huge grain of salt, because it seems that community moderation of content quality is only a winning situation when the community on the whole is brighter than you.

    1. Re:Pay no attention to community moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      There are two reasons (barring a SlashBug) that you post at 0. The first is if your karma is less than 0 but greater than -11 (assuming Slashdot runs with their own defaults). The second is if your account has a variable set to default your posts to -1. Grep indicates that the second case only occurs if an admin manually changes your account or bitchslaps it -- either way, you can get all the karma you'd please and still have to post at +1 to make it to zero.

      I'd recommend making a new account and giving your current one to a troll. Waste not, want not, and all that, you could even make a game out of it by making your password the answer to an extremely hard question you post on trolltalk. Alternatively, you could try contacting an admin and pointing out that you've been extremely nice for the last few years or that a horrible accident has been committed, but I wouldn't hold your breath... there are hundreds of us who can't moderate anymore because we broke a rule we were never informed of.