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AMD Dual-Core Performance Revealed

Posted by Zonk on from the hard-core-number-crunching dept.

Timmus writes "In two separate articles, FiringSquad takes a look at the performance of AMD's dual-core Opteron CPU. The first article examines the performance of dual-core in scientific computing applications (MATLAB and LS-DYNA) as well as digital photography, while the second story focuses on the performance of dual-core Opteron paired against Intel's dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition in video encoding, Cinebench, and a few other applications. The performance improvements are pretty impressive in multi-threaded applications that take advantage of the technology."

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  1. YESSSS by sehryan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am running one right now, which is why I got first post!

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    1. Re:YESSSS by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unfortunately, it looks like the GNAA has a beowulf cluster of these and beat you to it.....

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  2. one step closer to the day by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    where I can encode mpeg2 DVD (maybe it will be HD-DVD by then), rip & copy a DVD, Download a huge torrent, and Play UT with a respectable framerate.

  3. Re:Chance for someone to karma whore... by BlueCodeWarrior · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine two dual core CPUs plugged into a dual CPU mobo.

    Pop an erection yet?

  4. In other news ... by Luscious868 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dell still won't sell servers with them ....

  5. Re:The simple future by mobiux · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am waiting for intel's 32768 core processor.

    iirc, the p4ee dual core puts out 225 watts at full power.
    That would make the chip putting out roughly 3686400 watts, or 3.686 megawatts.

    It's too cold on this planet anyway.