Barcelona to outperform Clovertown?

AMD isn’t sitting still. Their native quad core 65nm processors, codenamed Barcelona, are due for release later this year and rather than concentrate on price, AMD are instead emphasizing performance. According to AMD’s corporate vice president for server and workstation products, Randy Allen, AMD expects “Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent.”

If this is true, then we have something from AMD to actually get excited over. Although these are server-based CPUs, its a good assumption that some fantastic desktop chips are on their way also. AMD adds that even though there is a nice performance boost, the power draw and thermal envelope is identical to current-gen Opterons.

Source: ZD Net