Replies to post #2714 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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         Peak / Base / Avg 
 Opteron 1170 / 1095 / 1133 
 Dell    1130 / 1085 / 1108 
 Intel   1107 / 1099 / 1103 
 Itanium  719 /  711 /  715 
  
 

There are new figures for 800MHz FSB on http://appzone.intel.com/performance/Platform.asp?User=1&Category=2&Benchmark=3

 
 P4-800  n/a  / 1152 / 1152 
 

Intel only have base, not peak figures for this speed. Assuming the same spread then the peak might be about 10-40 points higher. Intel don't really need peak (where you can pick and choose compiler flags on a per-benchmark basis), since their compiler does a pretty good job at picking the right optimisations for a given SPEC benchmark on a given Intel CPU. As it should, that's what it's built for :-).

At any rate the SPEC figures at 1.8GHz are respectable, it's the GHz number that's a little low. The SPECrate figures are very good indeed.