AMD Talks About Internal Benchmarks for Opterons

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AMD Talks About Internal Benchmarks for Opterons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 16, 2002 @08:16PM 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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why do i bother ,but... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 20:17 · Score: -1, Troll

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1. Re:why do i bother ,but... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 20:18 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  I bet you've never had sex before have you?
AMD sucks! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 20:24 · Score: -1, Troll

AMD is for the kind of people who put neon lights in their PC cases and drive civics.

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Re:Hello by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 20:29 · Score: -1, Troll

and your product caught my eye
And what product is that?
Luring people into homosexuality? TacoSnotting?
Re:*sigh* by Hurricane78 · 2002-10-16 20:43 · Score: -1, Troll

Haha... you wish. Since when ==$?

Well, if bush continues his way of madness a bit, and the americans are following him, then this will happen very soon! *doublesigh*

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Breaking news: Slashdot Cruiser aka BaitBus! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 20:45 · Score: -1, Troll

A purpose has finally been found for the infamous Slashdot Cruiser!
Re:How does one get laid? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 20:48 · Score: -1, Troll

not going to start lying to them
That way you'll stay a virgin forever.
Get real. Women like to listen to lies about their looks, for instance. Besides, they lie and cheat as well -- even more than us men.
Re:WRONG! RISC "ordinary computers" exist! by e8johan · 2002-10-16 21:18 · Score: -1, Troll

I'm sorry for saying "not in ordinary computers". I meant mainstream PCs (which hold a 90% market share or something).

The new Macs look great. Nice RISC CPUs (even multi-processor units) etc. I do however have some issues with Macs:

* The way they used BSD to create MacOS X without giving back to the community.

* Their history of special hardware, special environment and lack of software.

* Their (IMHO) high pricing.
Re:None will be successful in MY house by ShieldW0lf · 2002-10-16 22:03 · Score: 0, Troll

That really doesn't impact on me worth a toss. I will NOT contribute to the financial success of Palladium. Considering that there is an easy alternative available, anyone who claims to espouse freedom of information and communication and proceeds to buy one of these processors is the very worst kind of hypocrite.

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