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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. AMD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Time to buy AMD stock (new Intel Processor overheats so bad, it'll burn down all the plants).

  2. It better be quicker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is the first chip that they've unlocked the die-control on. The chips in the last three series not including server models are set to run with restrictions to prevent overheating even with a fan on them. However, because of the new molex composite, there's less of a concern with stress fractures because of improper channeling of the heat conduits. So it'll actually run even faster than the benchmarks let on once out of beta.

  3. Open Source like AMD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why can't Intel make the cpu open source like AMD does? The MP and XP models follow the GNU licensing to the letter.

  4. A fast CPU , oh wahey , the adrenaline buzz .... by boltar · · Score: -1, Troll

    SpecInt blah 10,000 MIPS waffle immense performance pissing contest witter Gigaplods of on-die something-with-a-flash-name
    frequencies amazing blah oooh look how fast mine is blah 20 gazillian megaflops and so on and so forth

    *YAWN*

    For gods sake , who really gives a flying fuck about this tedious shit? Its like a bunch of car bores sitting in a bar bullshitting for hours about
    webber carbs vs bosch jetronic. Christ...