AMD's Barcelona to Outpace Intel by 50%

Gr8Apes writes "AMD is upping the performance numbers for Barcelona by stating that "Barcelona will have a 50% advantage over Clovertown in floating point applications and 20% in integer performance 'over the competition's highest-performing quad-core processor at the same frequency'". AMD also claims that the new 3.0 GHz Opterons beat comparable Intel Xeon 5100 series processors in three server-specific benchmarks (SPECint_rate_2006, SPECint_rate2006, SPECompM2001) by up to 24%."

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what marketroids didn't tell us ..

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..it will also use 100% more wattage and produce 200% more heat than any Intel product. It will be released soon(tm), which means in few months, nobody just doesn't know which year. Good news for everybody who liked AMD Athlon thunderbird, it'll also warm up your house during cold winter months. Bad news for your electricity bill. Bind it with AMD-ATI graphics product and you'll get markets 2nd fastest rig, 'n small nuclear power plant to feed it as bonus. :-) :-)