Re: Probably the hardest conclusion for many will be the fact that increasing memory speed, increasing clock speed, and increasing CPU speed alone will not be enough for AM2 to catch up to Core 2 Duo in performance. The performance gap that remains when overclocking AM2 to 2.93GHz at 266 clock speed with DDR2-1067 is still huge. A die-shrink from 90 to 65nm and the additional cache that will allow will definitely help, but we are even skeptical there with Core 2 Duo already overclocking to 4GHz and beyond. No doubt AMD will find a solution, but it is now clear this will not be an easy fix for AMD.
Snow, thanks for finding this article. I knew I remembered reading this somewhere.
Of course, I think the evidence will be stronger when they finally do a proper review of Woodcrest vs. Opteron F-step, including memory bandwidth tests and actual server benchmarks.
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