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AMD Talks About Internal Benchmarks for Opterons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where's-the-beef dept.

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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  1. 486dx4-160? by acehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  2. C64 ? by stud9920 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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 ?
    1. Re:C64 ? by roundand · · Score: 4, Funny

      IPoAC (IP over avian carriers)

      That would be RFC1149, right?

  3. 486dx4-160 by clinko · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Re:I hope Hammer will fix the rc5 crippled speed!! by Colin+Bayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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