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There are lots of question marks surrounding AMD’s first quad-core CPU, the Barcelona server/workstation processor. How fast will it be and - most importantly - will it be able to outpace Intel’s quad-core Xeon 5300-series (“Clovertown”) processors. It will, says AMD, and in fact upgraded its performance expectations.

So far, we the company had claimed that Barcelona will surpass the performance of Clovertown by about 40% at any given clock speed. Now the company says that it believes that Barcelona will have a 50% advantage over Clovertown in floating point applications and 20% in integer performance “over the competition’s highest-performing quad-core processor at the same frequency.”
That's the real key to this statement. What will be the highest speed that AMD will release this cpu at.
If they are going to make a 2400mgz as top end and are comparing to Intels clovertown at that same speed they may well be right but does it matter?
What I want to know is how their top quad compares to Intels top quad.
That's all that matters. The rest is smoke and mirrors.