Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Elmer:

Where are the SPEC submissions then? Intel boosters say 2P i7s will be out in Q1/09 which starts in less than 2 months and no more than 4.5 months to the end of Q1/09. As of this time, all Intel 2P submissions need 50% more cores and a lot more clock just to get close to AMD in 2P SPECfp_rate2006. And at 16 cores, AMD wins against all Xeons in SPECint_rate2006, 249 (AMD and HP submissions both) to 221 (Intel only (all other OEMs are lower)). 4P Nehalems might be higher, but in Q4/09, 4P Shanghai likely will be substantially higher too.

Intel does win in that 4P/24C Dunnington scores 294 (IBM with their Hurricane chipset), but the 8P Shanghai scores are not yet submitted by AMD, HP or Sun. Likely those 8P/32C 2.7 Shanghais (lowly "failed" 8P/32C 2.3 Barcelonas scored 280) will beat Dunningtons in SPECint_rate2006.

Some trouncing when Intel gets beat by AMD in SPECxxx_rate2006.

Of course that may all change with SPECxxx_rate2009(2010?).

Pete