Core Duo Reaches the Desktop

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.'"

Comments

Lies! Lies and slander!

[generic-man]

I'm sure AMD would beg to differ.

Re:Lies! Lies and slander!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dell.
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It's like sex, except I'm having it!

I figured that Dell had fanboys... but wow.

Re:Wake me up when it supports 64-bit

[MarkByers]

You'd have to be a complete idiot to be using 64 bit on anything other than a server.

32 bits should be enough for anyone.

What the heck is "Intel's ViiV technology?"

[dpbsmith]

It seems to be one of those mysterious things like IBM's "SAA" or Microsoft's ".NET" or Vitalis' "V7..." .

It's a secret miracle ingredient about which all that is clear is that you're supposed to think it's good without needing to know what it is, exactly, or what it does, or why it's good.

Intel says: With Intel Viiv technology, you control a highly integrated Intel platform designed for digital entertainment. That means you can: Take charge of your media. Share experiences with movies, photos, and music with your friends and family. Simplify your digital life.

It's sort of like saying "Texaco gasoline has CleanSystem3, which will help you score with hot chicks."

Will somebody please explain to me what technical characteristics of a processor allow you to "share experiences with movies, photos, and music with your friends and family?"

Unless that means it doesn't support DRM?

Core Duo Speeds

[digitaldc]

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.

In other words, the Athlon 64 ran fine - it just needed a bit more time to cache up to it.

Re:Core Duo Speeds

[geekoid]

You know, /. mod system has always been screwy, but that post getting marked up insightfull, and not funny, is obsurd.

Re:Wake me up when it supports 64-bit

[chrismcdirty]

Until 2038, of course ;)

Two Words

[Guysmiley777]

Geek Religion

You're sick of techie holy wars. But you're reading /. comments? If you can't stand baseless bickering over meaningless arguments, it's best to probably stay away from the Comments section of this site.

Re:It's a play on words.

[kabloie]

" If this is true, it would be the first time intel made anything better than amd. "

Clearly you never got to play with a K6.

Naming Convention Ideas - Intel/Lucasfilm

[darthservo]

Hmm...looking over these names, I think Intel could team up with Lucasfilm and make some serious dough together:

• Yoda - Master CPU, very small and lightweight, yet incredibly powerful. Only loses in a head to head comparison to the AMD Sidious.
• Core Solo - Sure, she may not look like much, but she'll make .5 past lightspeed. Original Editions will shoot an instruction first, but Special Editions will delay in shooting.
• Wookie - built for mobie devices as a direct competition with the ARM CPUs to rip them out of their sockets.
• Bothan - defeat spyware, or create your own.

Re:Yeah.

[Rex Code]

I didn't think there would be any difference for everyday desktop use, but the system did feel a tad more responsive over all.

I see you used the official Gentoo benchmark suite.

Re:Idiots of the world unite!

[TheRaven64]

It's not like the moment Vista comes out, all 32-bit processors will be obsolete immediately

No, when Vista comes out all 32-bit processors will have been obsolete for years.