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Core Duo Reaches the Desktop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-the-race dept.

rtt writes "AMD has long reigned the desktop CPU market due to Intel's offerings struggling to keep up in terms of performance and power consumption. Yonah is the predecessor to the Core architecture and is predominantly a mobile chip, and is used at the heart of Intel's Viiv technology. Bit-tech has an article about Yonah beating the top of the range desktop AMD chip, the FX60, clock for clock. From the article" 'When Yonah is running at the same clock speed as AMD's Athlon 64 FX-60, we found that it beat it into a corner in just about every situation.'"

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  1. Re:Sham, but don't forget it's mobile by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    one should also point out that it's designed as a mobile chip, but for some reason they used as a desktop chip.

    My question is: what's the bottom line in Power Usage, Heat Usage (have to run those fans or add weight for heatsinks), Price (Intel is generally more expensive), etc.

    [caveat - I own Intel shares and don't own AMD shares]

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  2. Re:every situation? by Tweekster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yet that is why more and more AMD's are in the consumer market. aka best buy. Basically AMD bent Intel over and made it their bitch in the server market, and now the same thing is starting to happen in the consumer market. Intel is trying to put up a fight, but will eventually just have to bend over, grab their ankles and take it.

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  3. Idiots of the world unite! by oh_my_080980980 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Let me get this straight. This processor does not support 64 bit instructions. Microsoft is about to relase Vitsa, a 64 bit operating system. Why the F@#$% would anyone buy a 32 bit processor, only to replace it several months later for a 64 bit one!?!?!

    The fact that Vista will come in a 32 bit flavor is irrelevant. This article is all about speed and performance. Well, 64 bit computing is a hell of lot faster than 32 bit. Clearly Intel hopes a bunch of idiots buy this propaganda.

    AMD got it right. Put out a 64 bit processor that can handle 32 bit instructions. That way we can run our 32 bit operating systems until 64 bit ones arrive and not have to replace the bloody processor!