Processor: AMD Megatron SE XP PE 9000000+ 50 KHz processor
Motherboard: Asus 7XB39F2P3T34924838 motherboard
RAM: PC/Mac9600000 Infinite-DR SDRAM
Vid Card: nVidia Geforce 800 Ti Mega Ultra 100000 FX TX XP
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Anyway back to the topic. Some guy has scanned in a picture the benchmark results that german magazine did (forgotten the name).
Haven't got a clue what the diffrent benchmarks represent but all I can say is that in some of them the 1.2Ghz Clawhammer is beating the 2.2Ghz P4. Although some people have said that the P4 was using an old chipset and slow Rambus memory.
According to this thread this guy has access to some demo Opteron servers...he seems fairly impressed. Not sure if this is for real but certainly makes an interesting read.
The problem with those benchmarks is that it's basing it against a Wilamete P4- these at 1.6 performed somewhere around a P3 at 1ghz or worse if I remember correctly, right? It may seem good, but it isn't a huge thing, unless it scales very well like they say it will. That's the only thing that might help performace. Right now it's pretty much speculation until they have a 2ghz Claw to bench which probably won't be for a little while.
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Frankly, I'm more interested in the prices for Clawhammers. I don't care if Intel beats AMD by a few points that aren't noticable to the human eye, AMD has always been a bargain and I wanna see if AMD keeps it that way when new Intel+AMD prices are released. I already saw the price lists for GeForce FX's 2 months ahead of time, so I hope to see the same for AMD soon.
Why would the Germans get the CPU's first? Aren't China and U.S. the biggest buyers for AMD?
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Well then we all may be dissapointed, because isn't the Clawhammer a very costly processor to produce? I though I had read that they would phase the Athlon XP's out fairly slowly because it costs so much to make the new Athlon64's. If they sell them at a fairly good price, they will not be making much money if any at all. I'm wondering if the new processors will be fairly pricey when they release and slowly fall in price as yields rise and as they switch over to just the new process (which won't happen until the end of 2004 IIRC). It'll be an interesting year for AMD to say the least.
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