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Barcelona twice as fast as AMD's dual core system (video)

Story posted on: May 21, 2007


This morning AMD held a press briefing at the unassuming Clift hotel in San Francisco (cheaper than the "W" hotel where the company used to held such meetings... cost cuttings I guess) about its upcoming Barcelona processor. Despite rumours, AMD says that the quad core chip is still scheduled to ship this summer.


The demo part of the event was really noisy, and you'll experience that on the video. Sparking a remark from AMD's server and workstation division VP Randy Allen, on the feasibility of having such demos in the future, as servers get more and more powerful/noisy!

Anyway, the demo compared two AMD 4-sockets systems: one with the Barcelona quad core chip and the other with a shipping dual core processor. Both systems were equally configured with the processors at equal clock frequency and running the POV-Ray benchmark. Without surprise, the quad core system finished first, running almost twice as fast as the dual core one.


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User Comments

#0, Bob , le 22/05/07 8:54 AM


Dual Xeon scores better.. whats on with that?

#1, Mike , le 23/05/07 5:49 PM


Intel is 1.4ghz more then AMD, no shit it scores better. Barcelona at that speeds would kill Intel.



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