AMD makes bold quad-core claims
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 24 January 2007 - 14:32 · 11 comments & 3579 views
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#2 Posted by ~Greeno~ on 24 Jan 2007 - 14:54
- Says nothing for the 'here and now' though
Intel could say whatever they like too I guess...
my 3200+ venice is become quite old 
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#4 Posted by TruckWEB on 24 Jan 2007 - 15:24
- As much as I want to beleive AMD, let's wait and see. They are late to the party and Intel is not standing still. By the time this new AMD CPU come out, what will Intel have to fight?
Intel gave a huge punch with Core and Core2.
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#5 Posted by [bear] on 24 Jan 2007 - 15:31
- Intel will have its next slew of processors ready too. AMD is basing their comparisons on time standing still.
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#6 Posted by Billy Gun on 24 Jan 2007 - 16:30
- This Barcelona is caming to AM2 soket or for that server soket that is used by FX 72? I just don't know what to do, buy a AM2 or an core 2 duo?
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#7 Posted by RAID 0 on 24 Jan 2007 - 17:42
- It's about time AMD put out...some good news. I really hope these new chips help get them "back in the game." I can't wait to upgrade..and I have a C2D.
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#8 Posted by Gabe3 on 24 Jan 2007 - 18:18
- Well, AMD was ahead in the market for years. Its about time intel stopped slacking. I do have faith that AMD will climb back to the top in alot shorter time it took intel.
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#9 Posted by _dandy_ on 24 Jan 2007 - 20:42
- I'm all for some healthy competition. They keep each other on their toes and drive prices down. That's how it should be.
Personally, I'm on an Athlon64 4800 and don't see the need to replace it any time soon (my video card is another story though)...the more I wait, the more mainstream (and cheaper) these CPUs will be by the time I'm ready to move on.
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#10 Posted by wicker_man on 25 Jan 2007 - 08:11
- AMD, despite heavy marketing machine from Intel, has been proving being a healthy competitior since pretty much K5 chips back in the days, when the MHz race was just starting to heat up for real. I do believe they will deliver, so go AMD!
The quad-core processor era was ushered in with the release of quad-core processors for enthusiasts and for servers and workstations in November 2006 "We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," Allen said. The quad-core chip will also outperform AMD's current dual-core Opterons on "floating point" mathematical calculations by a factor of 3.6 at the same clock rate, he said.