Barcelona twice as fast as AMD's dual core system (video)
Story posted on: May 21, 2007

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.
User Comments
#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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