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AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finger-burning-good dept.

k-hell writes "It seems like X-bit Labs have gotten their hands on an 'engineering sample of the AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor'. Damage at Tech Report is writing that 'This is really fun, but I am a little concerned about their memory latency numbers.'"

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  1. Re:Quick conclusion by herrd0kt0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    or, for the more intuitive of you: simply click the "11" at the top. it takes you to the 11th page without you having to click through all the pages.

    here's a graphic:

    Pages:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
    click here^^

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  2. WORK per DOLLAR is all that matters by aeoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where is the 1.6 ghz P4 in this?

    That's irrelevant. The proper way to square off chips is based on money. In other words a $200 dollar chip should go head to head with another $200 dollar chip, and an $800 chip goes against another $800 chip.

    That's the only way to get fair results that are independant of implementation details. Clock rate the chip runs at is an implementation detail. It's not important. What's important is WORK per DOLLAR. That's the only thing that matters. Period.