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[alan81]

So what is your performance prediction for these two products that I have outlined?
--Alan

[mas]

dual die Woodcrest will not be competitive.

That isn't true IMO. Sure they will share a fsb but a quad-core Opteron will have to share a memory controller too. Also it will be 8MB of cache vs 4MB which is a bigger lead then 4 vs 2 on the dual-core front. AMD may pull some of this back by virtue of the shared crossbar over four cores allowing low latency communication between the cores but I will still expect the dual dual-core Woodcrest mcm to have the better increase due to greater overall cache.

[wbmw]

Re: dual die Woodcrest will not be competitive. They'll choke on the FSB.

And quad core Opteron won't choke on their single memory controller?

[misen]

Alan, dual die Woodcrest will not be competitive. They'll choke on the FSB. And I'll guess you won't see them before Q207 at the earliest.

Another oldie but goodie.

Misen