Intel talks specifically about Penryn

http://www.chipzilla.com/default.aspx?article=38566

This is what is NEW and has not yet been posted (as far as I know)

Penryn is already running at 3.33 ghz !

Cache is 24 way set associative (sort of implied going from 4 to 6 megs of cache, but this confirms it)

1600FSB,

Half speed clock multipliers

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3.66 GHZ Penryns are going to make 2.5 GHZ Barcelonas life rather difficult.

yeh.. providing that AMD actually releases Barcelona in May (not a paper launch).
if AMD decides to wait a little longer... then they'll just find themselves to be between a hard place and a rock.

barcelona is due to launch... in May, and we haven't seen a single benchmark from it. i really wonder why AMD has to hide it, if they really need this chip to save themselves from sinking.

nice find...

ya i agree its high time amd did come up with barcelona...they will lag behind a lot if not...

what i'm curious is, if Barcelona would take over the performance champ from intel, will their desktop version (Agenia?), outperforms Conroe by the same margin?

i'm not sure about this information, but since Barcelona is highly specialized for server segment, i don't know if Agenia would actually outperforms Conroe (i mean, Penryn) by the same margin. since AMD's manufacturing process may not allow jaw-dropping overclocking ability (6000+ vs. X6800), AMD may still lose the war in the desktop segment.

however, nontheless, IMO, whether or not Barcelona's release will perform up to par, it can only save AMD, but not necessarily propel AMD to become another Intel.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/po [...] aches.html

just awesome!

first intel was alone, then amd appeared and aggressively forced the pace of better technology and lower prices for a few years, and now it's intel's turn.

competition = good

the customer wins

I dont see how AMD can launch B in May. Thats a month away and there still hasnt been a single benchmark.

Good job Intel. Increasing the FSB speed (whereas 1066 is more than enough today, let alone 1333), and lowering the multipliers - I'm sure, all the overclockers will "thank" them.

It's definitely interesting. But I think it's wrong for those to say that the consumer wins, which we've heard so much lately. Keep in mind the only reason we are getting such fabulous deals and price slashes is because intel is playing dirtier then ever (I am not a AMD or Intel fanboy..I'm a performance fanboy..whoever has the best chip has my purchase). But the problem is if Barcelona fails and AMD slowly begins to go under...It's actually a bad situation for the consumer...After the fall, prices will begin to rise...Intel will have no real competitor...And by that, advancements on technology will slow in order to milk more cash out of the consumer before switching onto the next big thing.

Overall I'm actually thumbs down for all this aggressive play..>Although I love the performance of these new chips and can't wait for penryn and Barcelona...I really hope AMD can hold themselves up...Cause afterall..Atm they are at a huge disadvantage...and if all this goes uphill for intel and they get what we want..the consumer is not going to get what they want...you can be happy now about the price cuts but in the long run...If intel wins...we're going to be dishing out more money for slower advancements in the CPU market.

I think that might just be the reason behind AMD's suspicious silence. Their roadmap calls for 2.5GHz Barcys to hold the fort until late 2008 by which time they'll be so hopelessly outclassed that they might as well save themselves the relabeling and just introduce them as Semprons!

lol your so evil


but semprons? give them SOME credit..

maybe... a64? no.. a256 =O

actually dnt mind me..

oh oh .. the AX4+..... ++++++++++++


8O

My selfish opinion is that Intel and AMD owe us cheaper, faster chips for the lack of innovation over the last 3 - 4 years. Yes, I include AMD as well. The Athlon64s were great when they came out, but prices were too high (on the upper level Athlon64s) and advancement in processor strength too slow. It seemed like they were sitting on their thumbs because Intel was snake bit. Although I liked what Hyperthreading did for my DCC apps, for most of that period Intel basically repackaged their P4 family chips with little increments of added value, i.e. Northwood to Prescott, 533Mhz FSB to 800Mhz FSB, socket 478 to 775 with no real benefit, renaming series from P4+Ghz to P4+(5xx, 6xx,) adding 64bit and VT for some procs.

Intel might now just be trying to bury AMD with better, cheaper chips, but IMHO they are just catching up to where they should be on performance.

And AMD, they really should have instituted price drops with AM2, when C2D was still on the horizon and cloaked in speculation. More people would have committed to the AMD platform (X2s) instead of waiting for Conroe. But no, they waited until they had no substantial advantage over Intel chips to start competing in earnest.

I’d be happy if they both companies crank out crazy-fast & cheap chips and compete for my business this year.

Pretty dang sweet. AMD has awakened the sleeping giant.

actually, have processors with fsb1600 will be a godsend to overclockers, because by having a processor with that they have to garante that on the mobo, stick a c2d in there have a 100% guaranteed fsb1600, how can you go wrong?

Yeah that's all well and good if your into the whole performance thing, but does intel have a 4X4???

So who on this forum was bit on that one for a $400 MB???