Anusha
01-24-2007, 07:11 PM
This News.com article reports that an AMD exec is making claims that their upcoming quad-core processors will outperform Intel's quad-core chips by a significant amount. Here is a snip:
But AMD's "Barcelona" quad-core chip, due to arrive midway through 2007, will be a significant notch faster than the Clovertown chips expected to be on the market at that time, said Randy Allen, AMD's corporate vice president for server and workstation products.
"We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," Allen said. The quad-core chip also will 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.
Actual Article (http://news.com.com/AMD+Go+to+Barcelona+over+Clovertown/2100-1006_3-6152645.html?tag=nefd.top)
But AMD's "Barcelona" quad-core chip, due to arrive midway through 2007, will be a significant notch faster than the Clovertown chips expected to be on the market at that time, said Randy Allen, AMD's corporate vice president for server and workstation products.
"We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," Allen said. The quad-core chip also will 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.
Actual Article (http://news.com.com/AMD+Go+to+Barcelona+over+Clovertown/2100-1006_3-6152645.html?tag=nefd.top)