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AMD Demos Barcelona, Claims 42% Floating-Point Edge vs. Xeon
At a press event today, AMD/ATI talked up their forthcoming quad-core Barcelona processor. The company claims that the next-generation processor, due out in the second half of 2007, bests the quad-core Xeon 5355 by 42 percent in SPECfp_rate. SPECfp_rate is a throughput benchmark used to test multiprocessor systems, and the fact that Barcelona beat the top end of Intel’s Xeon 5000 sequence by such a large margin bodes well for the platform.
It’s easy to get excited by such numbers, but Barcelona is still a ways off. Even at that time, Intels 45nm Penryn will be readily available, so comparisons at that time may have a completely different meaning. Either way, it’s going to get interesting!
Source: Ars Technica
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