Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

Elmer,

As I predicted, Hammer fails to match Intel SPEC performance despite their promises.

Good prediction.

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but there are 2 issues that could swing things from -5% to 5% or so such as:
- adopting DDR-400
- running in 64 bit mode (submission is in 32 bit mode)

I don't think AMD is going to go with DDR-400 in the servers (and neither is Intel). But they may in the workstation market. As far as 64 bit OS and compilers, they will come and be improved to the point that they will outperform the best 32 bit code.

BTW, what are the base and peak scores of the mysterious 3 GHz P4 with the patch applied?

Joe