AMD Says Barcelona Will Outperform Clovertown

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."

Comments

Re:The bounty of true competition

[Snarkhunter]

Yeah, totally unimportant. Unless you were gonna, you know... but a processor or something, but who on /. is gonna be doin that?

Re:You mean if they made OSX for all PC's?

[NRecob]

"why everything "just works.""

What a laugh. Sure fanboy. Be a good little MacStain and go sell your hype elsewhere.

Re:You mean if they made OSX for all PC's?

[evilviper]

Because then OSX would be just as troublesome as Windows and Linux.

No. Not unless Apple half-asses the project.

Linux is troublesome only because it hasn't been designed to just work, and because vendor support is nil.

The BSDs are far better, in this area. OpenBSD detects all the hardware in a system on boot-up. So either it works, or it doesn't. There is no messing around, no configuration, no hdparm, no editing modules.conf, no loading modules, etc.

FreeBSD, is probably the best example, though. It detects pretty much everything except for soundcards on boot-up, but that is detected and loaded by the installation program, and you can tell it to load all the soundcard modules, without adverse effects, and be able to put that FreeBSD system in any PC hardware around. Even with that, FreeBSD is rock-solid on every bit of PC hardware out there.

Linux has two minor things over the BSDs... One is eth0... The BSDs use different names for network cards (xl0, de0, etc.), so you have to set your network addresses again when you change cards, or you have to put the information in the config file repeatedly, with the different card types you think you might use. The other advantage is X11, since the BSD's don't have programs like Kudzu, X11 needs to be configured by hand. Not that either of these two issues isn't pretty close to trivial to workaround.

So with OSes like FreeBSD out there, and working perfectly right now, the excuses of instability due to variety don't hold one bit of credibility. It's purely an attempt to do what software companies have always done... Blame hardware for their bugs.