Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Chipguy:

That world is currently here.

At the 4P level, Dunnington only gets to 2.67GHz and Harpertown Xeon 7300 series to 2.933GHz. Funny how AMD's 2.7GHz Shanghai beats both of those Xeon quad core CPUs in 4P SPECxxx_rate2006. Only the 4P/24C variant gets higher than 4P/16C Shanghai in SPECint_rate2006 and not by that much (18%) given the 50% more cores advantage at roughly the same clock. Of course, 4P Nehalem is nowhere to be found.

Too bad we live in the current real world, not one many months into the future.

Pete