Intel's Conroe Previewed and Benchmarked

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.'"

Comments

Nothing to see here, move along...

[Wdomburg]

Wow, so an group of benchmarks chosen by Intel show that their next generation chip is faster that their competitors current generation chip? Big f@#$ing surprise there.

Call me when there's a third party benchmark of same generation chips.

Re:The Conclusion

[Anonymous Coward]

^ AMD fans are not members of the "reality based community". Most of them just want to go online and buy some super cheap $60 CPU while convincing themselves they are getting the cadillac of processors. Even when P4 Northwood was pounding the K7, they were still taking the same old jive shit about price/performance or whatever.

Sure, the Opteron is well regarded server and workstation CPU, with slightly better performance than Xeon sysstems. But you can be assured that the people flaming Intel in these stories are limping along with some bashed together duron kit or a discontinued A64 running on a 3 year old mobo design and are entirely irrelevant to market for high-end AFX and Conroe EE systems.

Price?

[insane_machine]

I admit I didn't read TFA, but even if Intel does have the better processor. Most people would love to have either of these processors, though they do not have over $1000 to blow on it. In the more affordable range, AMD is still kicking tail.

Re:Shock news.

[Anonymous Coward]

I also think AMD is the best. We have a lot in common. Let's be gay together.

Is it 64-bit?

[MWales]

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+.

Re:Wait and see

[acidblood]

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.