Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Dan3]

Re: will be 88% faster on SPECint_rate than a 3.6Ghz Irwindale system

At the same clock running the same .exe? Or at a "projected" 5ghz running code from a radically tweaked new version of Intel's SPEC specific compiler?

My wife's Jeep is 88% faster than my Cobra - in the snow.

More to the point, by the time it ships, how will it compare with what AMD is shipping at that time?

We're still wating for all those "projected" performances from the (by now) 7ghz P4s, 2.5ghz Dothans, and 2.5ghz Itaniums for which we were hinted "projected SPEC scores".

Meanwhile, the difficult to manufacture (too tough for Intel, at any rate) dual layer strain SOI parts that incorporate on die memory controller plus chip scale interconnects for I/O don't need to have their scores "projected" - they can be measured.