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Intel/AMD Battle Rages On
An anonymous reader writes "The battle between Intel and AMD has broken out of the cleanroom and literally into public view with AMD's public display CPU speed challenge to competitor Intel. Should the competition take place, the infamous chip makers will battle their best 2-way and 4-way configurations for the latest title as speed king." From the article: "AMD's proposed dual-core duel would be a live, public performance evaluation between server platforms based on the dual-core Opteron 800 Series or 200 Series processors and the corresponding Intel product. Should Intel accept AMD's challenge, the duel would take place at a public venue to be announced in the coming weeks, with testing conducted by a neutral, third-party testing lab. "
Should Intel accept AMD's challenge, the duel would take place at a public venue to be announced in the coming weeks
Place the chips in an unmarked bag and drop them in the trash on the corner of 2nd and 4th. We'll let you know when our neutral, third-party testing lab is finished with them and post their results.
Nah.
...and it would be as accurate.
It'd be more interesting if the opposing CEOs dressed up in colorful, masked outfits with capes and boots and took turns body-slamming each other in a ring, surrounded by thousands of cheering fans, and the play-by-play by a prominent Mexican wrestling announcer.
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Two computers crunching numbers next to each other, big deal.
Fistfight between executives, I'd watch.
Although, I read a lot of Opteron benchmarks over the past couple months, and those suckers are blazing even at encoding tasks and all. The multiple cores humiliate Intel's HyperThreading. I don't think Intel makes any chips that can compete with Itanium...and we all know how much Itanium matters these days. *cough*
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Maybe we could get a few undercard matches as well?
Windows v. Linux, quickest from blank disk to running system
vi v. emacs, first to edit a 10 page document
RMS v. Bruce Perens, which person does the audience kill first
Let the boys from id Software set up a Doom 3 server so AMD and Intel can frag it out. That should be a fair and neutral test to determine which CPU sucks down the pineapple. :P
Corner of 2nd and 4th? Whoa, there, boy! We're not in Euclidian space anymore!
It's a good thing you said "literally". I was going to think that the Intel/AMD battle has moved metaphorically into public view.
No, we're in New York City. You gotta problem with dat?
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