AMD Talks About Internal Benchmarks for Opterons

ggruschow writes "AMD's CTO says their 2.0-Ghz Opteron (aka Hammer) beat a 2.8-Ghz Xeon (P4) on both SPECint2000 and SPECfp2000 tests, but was mixed against an Intel 1-Ghz Itanium 2 (details at ExtremeTech). IBM predicted "conservative" 1.8-Ghz PowerPC 970 scores, which fall in the middle of the pack (sweet for OS X). It's probably not a coincidence that AMD's news comes so soon after Gartner said x86-64 would fail. Even if Intel loses the performance crown again, their upcoming mobile processor is looking pretty spiff with its recently announced 1MB of cache. Sounds like next year might finally bring a worthy upgrade for my 486dx4-160."

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486dx4-160?

[acehole]

You're weak my friend ;)

You've got no holding power... hell i've still got my Commodore 64 with accoustic coupler modem, and i'll hold onto it until I see something worth spending money on...

Re:486dx4-160?

[figjamjam]

Bah!!

You youngins with your new fangled machines. I'll never give up my UNIVAC.

Goto go and replace some valves now. See ya.

Re:Yawn, wake me when it ships.

[Anonymous Coward]

"I've got something interesting that likes to malloc more than 4GB sometimes"

Woah, you do open a lot of porn with mplayer!

C64 ?

[stud9920]

hell i've still got my Commodore 64 with accoustic coupler modem

You overcomfortable rich kid ! A C64 is just a toy with loads of eye candy. I am still doing it with my Difference Engine 2.0 and IPoAC (IP over avian carriers). More would just be superfluous luxury. Besides, shouldn't you have typed your message in all caps ?

Re:C64 ?

[roundand]

IPoAC (IP over avian carriers)

That would be RFC1149, right?

486dx4-160

[clinko]

486dx4-160? No wonder you crazy linux folks hate windows. You haven't bought a computer since 1995.

Re:I hope Hammer will fix the rc5 crippled speed!!

[Colin Bayer]

Are you going decide which CPU to get next based on bit rotate performance?

On the PC, all of my work was so slow. That repeated multiplication and division by powers of two took forever. That's why I got a Mac, which has great shift left / shift right performance! Now I have more time to ogle the secretaries from the water cooler.

I'm Colin Bayer, and I'm an accountant at Arthur Andersen.

Re:I hope Hammer will fix the rc5 crippled speed!!

[Jay Carlson]

I hope THIS mask rev of Opteron (Hammer) chip will be faster than January 2002 PowerPC G4 chips.

[...] The Mac Dual 1 Ghz g4 is faster than all existing dual AMD motherboards in RC5 benchmark by almost 100%.

[..] Funny "Mhz myth" there showing itself I guess... Apple now is selling even FASTER machines [...]

I can see the new "Switch" ad now (white background, jerky cuts):

"I'm a network administrator and so are my friends" "We steal computer power from our employers, at school, wherever we can find it, to run this Are See Five thing"

"Peace, love, and strong crypto"

"So I noticed the Apple computers were pretty fast at kicking out keyblocks" "I had to have one"

"Say it with me: Brute-force known-plaintext attacks" "That's what makes a computer cool"

"If I'm going to spend a few thousand dollars on a computer, it's gotta be the best at at least one thing"

"Hi, I'm Anonymous Coward. I'm a crack user."

[Apple logo]

Cmon. The estimated SPECint numbers are wonderful news. They're a lot closer to reflecting what most of us do with these machines than key-agile stream ciphers. Beating up x86 weenies with the RC5 key rates will just make them buy a couple of $400 Athlons to stick in the closet and gloat about price/key/sec performance. (That's counting electricity too.)

Re:Yawn, wake me when it ships.

[Anonymous Coward]

I've got something interesting that likes to malloc more than 4GB sometimes

Mozilla?