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First Benchmarks of AMD Hammer Prototype
porciletto writes "As seen on Ace's Hardware, this article features Quake 3 benchmarks comparing an 800 MHz ClawHammer sample to Athlon MPs at 800 MHz and 1667 MHz, as well as a Willamette Pentium 4 (256 KB L2, 400 MHz FSB) at 800 MHz and 1600 MHz. The benchmark results indicate a 40% performance increase over an Athlon MP for the ClawHammer. Additionally, the 800 MHz ClawHammer manages to tie (actually outperform by 1 FPS) the 1667 MHz Willamette Pentium 4."
I can't think of a good reason to justify a upgrade to 64bit. Its killing me, not to have a reson to get one... or four.
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I don't take any notice till i see the notepad.exe benchmark.
*dread*
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
If I were AMD I'd stick to Hammer. Hammer says: I'm hip, I'm happening; I can kick your a$$. I'm tough; I scare the hell out of the porkiest, poorly optimized code. Grrrrr Opteron says: I ware glasses.
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Normally I would be a sarcastic dick and say 'about when Mozilla 1.0 comes out', but that won't work anymore.
Don't worry, though. You can still refer to indefinitely long time periods as 'about when the Hurd is released'.
Hey kids, there's only 5 days left 'til Yak Shaving Day!
Can that hammer smash a block of itanium without breaking?
$ yes >
I believe that the new naming scheme is something like this:
Duron becomes Athlon Jr.
Athlon XP becomes Athlon
Clawhammer becomes Double Athlon
Sledgehammer becomes Bacon Double Athlon with Cheese
That was classic intercourse!
Maybe that company was intel? ;)
actually - dunno...
...doesn't have the same ring.
~jeff
As the other guy said clawhammer is the consumer chip. Also Quake 3 is an excellent test of memory usage, bus speed, and in general overall performance of a computer. It uses everything the computer can give it, and more. Hmm can wait to start benchmarking computers with DOOM 3
The problem was not with the name hammer itself, per sae, but with the cost of manufacturing the little anti-static balloon pants they were going to ship the CPUs in.
Never trust an atom. They make up everything.
AMD design engineers run into an Intel strategy exec at a conference. Intel guy says:
Armand Hammer
Cheers,
Jonathan
"Do you know what they call the 'BaconDouble Athlon with Cheese in France ?"
"What, they don't call it the 'Bacon Double Athlon with Cheese' ?"
"Nah, they got some sense, they call it "Le Hammer"
"Le Hammer, sh*t"
(well , actually we'd pronounce it "le ameure" (no 'H' at the beginning and the usual adding of an 'e' at the end))
"We're french types-ah , why else do you think we have this outrrrrrrageous accent for ?"
-- don't discount flying pigs until you have good air defense
It sounds like a VLIW camp inside Intel
:/
*sigh*
I wish we'd just start calling these data types what they are - int16, int32, int64, float64, etc. It could save us all so much confusion. I mean, what are they going to call it when chips move to 512-bit? Uber Turbo Fantastically-Amazing Super Very Long Instruction Word?
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
VLIW is roughly synonymous with multiple parallel instructions per instruction word. Which is what makes the IW VL. :)