AMD's dual core Opteron & Athlon 64 X2 - Server/Desktop Performance Preview

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Good Read

Link from Anandtech

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its been only a few minutes (or hours) since it was posted and its already here.. good going.. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
the Gaming performance conparision is all that i care about now.. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: and its good to see the A64s at 2.4gig outperform the X2s.. heheh.. such a relief.. me dont have to upgrade to X2 as yet.. :wink:
And the less said about intel, the better.. i mean perf wise :face_with_tongue:
EDIT:
Some interesting conclusions:

  • Everything from gaming to compiling performance on the Athlon 64 X2 4400+ was extremely solid.

  • you no longer have to make a performance decision between great overall performance or great media encoding performance, AMD delivers both with the Athlon 64 X2.

  • The real problem is that AMD has nothing cheaper than $530 that is available in dual core, and this is where Intel wins out. With dual core Pentium D CPUs starting at $241, Intel will be able to bring extremely solid multitasking performance to much lower price points than AMD will.

^^ see the tables turning? :wink:

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well amd 3500+ is $272 at new egg .. so dual core with the same 2.2ghz and 512kb cache for 530++ isnt so bad right ? slightly less then 2 of the same single processor

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well.. what i meant was once upon a time Intel wud sell on basis of its advanced technology alone (at high prices), with AMD resorting to low price tactics..

Times do change :wink:

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hehe true.. i just responded to this

also i remember something i heard , pay for peanuts and you may end up with a monkey

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For those who want in a lil simplified yet beatifully written review :

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/opteron-x75/index.x?pg=1

Somehow I always found Anandtech boring too read becomes too technical after a point. Loved [H] and Techreport’s style of writing