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AMD fights back with boosted Barcelona performance
Rick Merritt
EE Times
(04/23/2007 11:51 AM EDT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices revealed today (April 23) its upcoming quad-core Opteron will exceed the integer performance of Intel Corp's high-end four-core CPU by 20 percent. Previously, the company had only said the chip will provide a "double digit" boost over its archrival's processor.
New test results based on the SPECcpu2006 benchmarks show AMD's Barcelona processor will have "up to a 50 percent advantage in floating point performance and 20 percent in integer performance" over Intel's high-end quad-core chip running "at the same frequency," according to a statement from AMD.
AMD fights back with boosted Barcelona performance
Rick Merritt
EE Times
(04/23/2007 11:51 AM EDT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices revealed today (April 23) its upcoming quad-core Opteron will exceed the integer performance of Intel Corp's high-end four-core CPU by 20 percent. Previously, the company had only said the chip will provide a "double digit" boost over its archrival's processor.
New test results based on the SPECcpu2006 benchmarks show AMD's Barcelona processor will have "up to a 50 percent advantage in floating point performance and 20 percent in integer performance" over Intel's high-end quad-core chip running "at the same frequency," according to a statement from AMD.
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