Quote Originally Posted by SuperDude
The FX killer IS HERE
No, Dothan is no A64 FX or P4 killer. No doubt its faster than A64 and P4 in some tests. However, its also painfully slow in certain tests too.

A desktop CPU has to perform more functions than just running Super PI or chrunking out frame rates in games, its also used in workstations for tasks like 3D rendering, used in studios for video/audio encoding/editing etc. The core architecture (eg. Opteron, Xeons) is also used as server CPUs.

Dothan is a CPU thats designed for notebooks. The designers optimised the CPU for what they think pple will mostly do on a notebook. They also excluded features that they think pple don't need.

Think of it as arritubtes of a character in a RPG game. If you want him to do everything, it will be a jack of all trades. If you want him to be a master of some, it will perform poorly in other areas. Dothan is an example of that. Btw, when Cell is out (official benchmarks), I believe it will trash all our curren x86 CPUs in terms of FPU performance. Unfortunately, thats about all it can do.