ubergizmo
 Ubergizmo

[Microprocessor Forum] 8 Intel cores faster than 16 AMD cores! (video)

Story posted on: May 22, 2007


At the Microprocessor Forum, Intel demoed its V8 workstation running the POV-Ray benchmark. The machine is equipped with Intel's Workstation Board S5000XVN, 2 quad-core Xeons 5365, clocked at 3GHz and 16GB RAM. And the results are simply impressive: Intel scored over 4,900 pixels per seconds versus a little bit over 4,000 for AMD's 4 sockets quad-core (Barcelona) system. Again, this is an AMD 16 cores system versus Intel's 8 cores V8 machine.
If you take 16 cores at 1.8Ghz, divided by 2 and add 60% to get to 3.0Ghz, it gives POV-Ray score of 3600 for 8 cores. Meaning that at 3.0GHz, Barcelona still lose by quite some compare to an 8 cores Clowertown system.



"Why do you need 16 cores, when you can do better with 8. Our 8 core system is 30% faster than the 16 core machine AMD showed to the press yesterday. I just don't understand how they can claim to be 40% faster", said Francois Piednoel, an Intel engineer present at the show.
Well, now AMD has some explanation to do and sooner rather than later. Because if they can't figure out what happened with those POV-Ray results they showed us, that's the end of it. At the show, Intel also demoed a system with a 45nm Penryn quad-core processor (shipping by year end, about the same time than Barcelona!) that is 40% faster than the top of the line quad-core generation, the Core 2 Extreme processor QX6800. Wow!


  (16)


User Comments

#0, Cake , le 23/05/07 8:29 AM


Can you ask AMD what the hell is going on?

[UberPulse response]
Just did! Read next post!
JB

#1, mac , le 24/05/07 4:14 AM


OMG, my power5, does 16000
pixels per second... I forgot
to mention I set the raytracing
depth to 0... how can you
compare test that you don\'t
know how they were performed,
thats unprofessional

#2, mark , le 24/05/07 6:38 PM


ummm what is this article saying really? because last time i checked the Barcelona core hasn\'t been tested by anyone; even AMD hasn\'t released numbers yet. I\'m just not seeing where the hell Intel got these numbers. AMD wasn\'t even at the Microprocessor forum and I highly doubt that they would loan Intel 4 Barcelona processors.

#3, JAT , le 25/05/07 6:20 AM


Penryn may be 40% faster if SSE4 software is used. SSE4-support will be found on all major applications when Penryn is launched. Fer sure.

"If you take 16 cores at 1.8Ghz, divided by 2 and add 60% to get to 3.0Ghz, it gives POV-Ray score of 3600 for 8 cores."

Where we need banchmarks, while we can CALCULATE processor speed?

#4, Max , le 25/05/07 6:36 AM


Amd responded and aperently intel crippled the system with 6gb of ram

There are more comments: Page 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 , All


Leave a Comment

(In order to cut on SPAM, anyone can leave a comment, but only comments from Typekey users will be posted immediately. Others will have to wait for a moderator to approve the comment. Thanks for your patience. Typekey is free and it takes only one minute to register)

Please be respectful of others when participating to this thread. Insulting or self-promotional comments could be removed. Thank you.



Email a Friend
To:


Your email (no spam):


Message (optional):