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AMD Says Barcelona Will Outperform Clovertown

Posted by kdawson on from the horse-race dept.

Dysfnctnl85 points out a ZDNet Blog posting in which AMD claims that its upcoming quad-core "Barcelona" chipset should be 40% faster than "Clovertown," Intel's quad-core Xeon 5300 line. AMD says that the introduction of Barcelona marks a shift in their strategy from emphasizing price to performance. The post goes on: "Intel is eager to claw back some of the server market share from AMD, and this is where Clovertown comes in... The Xeon 5300 line will represent excellent value for money since Intel plans on pricing them the same as its dual core Xeon 5100 processors. That could make things tough for AMD."

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  1. Re:If only I/O speeds could also grow as fast by suv4x4 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The way AMD and Intel are improving the processor speed is very impressive. I/O speed is going to become an even clearer bottleneck now.

    Depends what you're using. I gotta say, I use PHP.. and I'm very happy with more cores coming on the server market, and CPU is quite clear bottleneck for that one technology :(