Replies to post #40965 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[upc]

Yes, we have one website saying it sucks, but what else do we have?

A TOTAL and COMPLETE absence of benchmarks from Intel more than 1 month after the part launched. If it were at all competitive, Intel would be advertising its performance. They aren't. That's circumstantial evidence. Do you know what that is?

upc

[fastpathguru]

One rumour, one website.

Uhh, did you notice my response to chipguy's bold espousal of gpg's (an encryption app) big 32% improvement yesterday?

(The reason I claim this sucks is that Hammer is getting 50-300% improvements in encryption applications over vanilla x86. I cited 2 sources.)

fpg

[CombJelly]

"but its mostly obscure mpeg encoding benchmarks and odd games"

I wasn't aware that DB2 was either an obscure mpeg encoding benckmark or an odd game. Ditto for Oracle. MySQL. Apache...