Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Elmer Phud]

Joe -

I didn't run this through the translator. Does it say whether these are compiled with a 32 bit or 64 bit compiler?

I didn't run it through either, and as someone else pointed out, it's not new but it is the first time I've seen 1.8GHz numbers. Let's give AMD the benefit of the doubt and assume it's 32 bit but at the same time let's realize that SPEC doesn't thread processes so it doesn't show the benefit of iHT either. It does show that if those numbers hold, and 1.8GHz is the highest frequency shipped in April, that the best available Opteron will fall short of Intel's current shipping Pentium in the benchmark that AMD originally chose to use to highlight Opteron performance. This is in stark contrast to the claims of "world's highest performance" made many times by proud AMD enthusiasts and exactly in line with what I've been predicting ever since AMD started making their claims.

I realize a benchmark on an obscure German website doesn't settle anything, and AMD may present something different but after years of outrageous claims we are getting close to the time when AMD has to put up or shutup. Talk has been damn cheap and it won't sell for much longer. We are coming up on "show time".