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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."

2 of 318 comments (clear)

  1. Re:one step closer to the day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    just get a Mac G5 they can do all that already

  2. I wait another 3 years. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dual cores hasn't come for real until the Apple zealots starts screaming about Apple being first with it (Just like they did when Apple went dual cpu). It will probably take another 3-5 years. Until then, you may run dual cores, but it ain't for real.