Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

AMD's next generation QUAD core that's supposed to be all that more impressive than Intel's "two dual cores on a package" ONLY GETS A 40% IMPROVEMENT IN SPECFP_RATE?!?

LOL, I wouldn't call that impressive.

Yeah that caught my eye. The Opteron has such a high memory
bandwidth to FLOP ratio that going quad core should drive
up SPECfp_rate2000 by more than 40%. Add to that the L3
and a reported doubling of SIMD DP FLOPs/clock to 4 like
NGMA and it is completely underwhelming.

How much clock speed did AMD lose going from dual core to
quad core to keep device TDP in check? Apparently quite a
bit if AMD isn't seriously sandbagging.