AMD: Barcelona quad-core 50% faster than Intel’s quad-core Xeon

[Anusha]

There are lots of question marks surrounding AMD’s first quad-core CPU, the Barcelona server/workstation processor. How fast will it be and - most importantly - will it be able to outpace Intel’s quad-core Xeon 5300-series (“Clovertown”) processors. It will, says AMD, and in fact upgraded its performance expectations.

So far, we the company had claimed that Barcelona will surpass the performance of Clovertown by about 40% at any given clock speed. Now the company says that it believes that Barcelona will have a 50% advantage over Clovertown in floating point applications and 20% in integer performance “over the competition’s highest-performing quad-core processor at the same frequency.”

AMD did not release the specific clock speeds of Barcelona. Intel’s Clovertown currently tops out at 2.66 GHz, but the company has begun supplying limited numbers of 3.0 GHz server quad-core processors.

AMD also announced the new dual-core Opteron models 2222 SE and 8222 SE, which somewhat had been announced already at the beginning of this month: AMD claims that the new 3.0 GHz Opterons beat comparable Intel Xeon 5100 series processors in three server-specific benchmarks (SPECint_rate_2006, SPECint_rate2006, SPECompM2001) by up to 24%.

The 2222 SE is available for a tray price of $873, the 8222 SE is priced at $2149. Intel’s 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160 processor currently sells for $851.
This is old news, but these are the updated claims :D (said by AMD officials today)

[gayannr]

This is old news, but these are the updated claims :D (said by AMD officials today)
what the price of Xeon5300
I think its damn high

[gayannr]

why dont AMD publish official BARCELONA benchmarks yet

[Anusha]

what the price of Xeon5300
I think its damn high
I guess. Xeons should be expensive than Conroes.

[Anusha]

why dont AMD publish official BARCELONA benchmarks yet
That I don't really know. Maybe they are keeping Intel guessing.

But what I don't understand is how the heck a 1.9GHz CPU can out perform a 3.33GHz Penryn.

[gayannr]

But what I don't understand is how the heck a 1.9GHz CPU can out perform a 3.33GHz Penryn.
I think IPC count

[Anusha]

http://techreckoner.com/amd-barcelona-33-to-66-faster-than-intel-qx6800/
AMD Barcelona 33% to 66% faster than Intel QX6800

Earlier i had posted about AMD Barcelona.

Today i have came across the Comparision of AMD Barcelona AMD’s native Quad Core Processor and Intel’s Fastet QX6800.

In Sandra multimedia benchmark Barcelona K10 2.5 GHz scores over 400.000 it/s (instructions / second) in integer test and about 300.000 it/s in floating point test.

Intel’s fastest QX6800 Quad core at 3 GHz scores about ~300.000 it/s in integer and ~180.000 it/s in floating point test.

So at least in multimedia stuff and this synthetic benchmark AMD’s native quad core is 33.3 percent faster than Intel’s fastest Quad core, while in the floating calculations it is a massive 66 percent faster.

The QX6850 with FSB 1333 might improve the situation a bit, but it won’t be enough save the day. Intel needs to go much higher than 3 GHZ to match the 2.5 GHz K10 part.

Seems AMD has got fed up with its half million losses and they are ready to defeat Intel.

[Anusha]

I think IPC count
It does, but not this much. Penryn is a better core than a Conroe. However, it seems they were comparing the 2.5GHz Barcelona and 2.93GHz Conroe. That's unfair, considering we are talking about a released product vs. unreleased product (and not coming out anytime soon)