Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[alan81]

Conroe/Athlon 64 frequency in Q3/Q4?
Hailmary said:
I believe Merom/Conroe/Woodcrest will be performance per watt leader when compared at the same frequency to A64/Opteron, but I believe it will lag A64 in frequency and overall performance.
Actually, I doubt either Intel or AMD know either at this time. I am fairly confident both the X2 and the Conroe will be clocking somewhere between 2.8Ghz and 3.6 Ghz and which one is ahead will depend on how things play out at the respective companies over the next nine months.

In terms of relative performance, I'll predict that on existing applications it will be very similar per clock, but on newly compiled applications (AKA spec) Conroe will be ahead. I think the "fourth pipe" and the new fused macro-ops will require new code to really shine.
--Alan