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Intel's Conroe Previewed and Benchmarked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-the-hood dept.

DrFishstik writes "Anandtech has a few preliminary benchmarks on Intel's new Conroe architecture. From the article: 'As far as we could tell, there was nothing fishy going on with the benchmarks or the install. Both systems [AMD 2.8Ghz OC and Conroe] were clean and used the latest versions of all of the drivers.'"

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  1. Is it 64-bit? by MWales · · Score: 1, Troll

    I haven't read anywhere if it implements the 64-bit extensions, and obviously haven't heard anything about the 64-bit performance. And I _do_ care since I'm already running Fedora Core 4 x86_64 on an Athlon64 3200+.

  2. Re:Wait and see by acidblood · · Score: 0, Troll
    Can you follow up with more evidence on your "carbon copy" claim?

    Sure, just grab the optimization guides for both processors and compare the microarchitectural diagrams. AMD tried to disguise this a bit by changing some terminology, but after adjusting the terminologies to match, the similarities between both processors are clear.

    Although I have to admit I've been fooled by this as well. I recall I came to this realization by reading H&P's classic `Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach' and not the optimization guides.
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