Replies to post #67312 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[KeithDust2000]

HailMary, No need to get worried now about something that is 7-9 months away.

I´m not worried about that from a stock perspective personally, since I need my money invested in AMD before those products hit the market. That´s why it´s only "interesting" to me, from a technical perspective, but not "worrying" at all from an investment point of view - I don´t care what happens to the stock after I´m out. If it goes down I can pat myself on the back. If it goes up, I have no reason to care. But I want to see it going up as high as possible before my exit, obviously, and the better AMD looks to the street over the next few months, the better for me (and every other investor).

[alan81]

Conroe/Athlon 64 frequency in Q3/Q4?
Hailmary said:
I believe Merom/Conroe/Woodcrest will be performance per watt leader when compared at the same frequency to A64/Opteron, but I believe it will lag A64 in frequency and overall performance.
Actually, I doubt either Intel or AMD know either at this time. I am fairly confident both the X2 and the Conroe will be clocking somewhere between 2.8Ghz and 3.6 Ghz and which one is ahead will depend on how things play out at the respective companies over the next nine months.

In terms of relative performance, I'll predict that on existing applications it will be very similar per clock, but on newly compiled applications (AKA spec) Conroe will be ahead. I think the "fourth pipe" and the new fused macro-ops will require new code to really shine.
--Alan