AMD's Barcelona to Outpace Intel by 50%

Gr8Apes writes "AMD is upping the performance numbers for Barcelona by stating 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 also 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%."

Where would you want to live?

[Anonymous Coward]

Barcelona or Clovertown?

Bring on the competition

[heinousjay]

I really hope this plays out. Not only do we benefit from better technology, but I get to read all the fanboy flamewars too!

SPECint_rate_2006 vs SPECint_rate2006?

[FooAtWFU]

Wow! The underscore makes all the difference!

Correction

[matt me]

Barcelona will have a 50% advantage over Clovertown in floating point applications and 20% in integer performance.

I think the figures for relative performance should be 1.500000000000000 and 1 respectively.

Awesome!

[xerent_sweden]

I can't wait to run Microsoft Word on these babies!

Fly me...

[camperslo]

I'll do you 50% faster and 20% harder than your date last week, and promise not to cost you more.

But marry me soon baby, I need the money

SSE4? Please, don't get distracted over little things like whether or not I can cook!

Re:Heh.

[stevesliva]

2 of our attorneys just got quad-core Mac Pros with Studio displays. For writing documents on.

They probably also got Ferraris. To commute to work in.

Re:Why casual users can't be bothered

[Anonymous Coward]

FWIW, it seems to be the Democrats doing all the posturing.
Republicans seems to have taken a "no response" approach to media claims, instead running the countryt and letting guys like bill O'Reilly do their thing. This isn't to say they don't advertise, but they don't take out full page NYT (or was it washington post?) ads chest pounding like the Democrats do.

Re:Real life tasks

[Slashcrap]

It would be more relevant to know how does it perform real life tasks, eg kernel compilation time comparison...

Interesting definition of "real life tasks" you have there.

For the majority of the computing population, I would suggest that "real life tasks" would be more accurately defined as downloading and playing porn, rendering MySpace pages and running Norton Antivirus together with the 28 different systray applets installed by Dell during the manufacture of their shitwreck of a PC. Furthermore I would also suggest that more cycles have been burned running just one of the 8735 variants of CoolWebSearch shitware than will ever be used for kernel compilation.