Official AMD Barcelona Thread

[Shadowmage]

There seems to have been a major clock speed increase from the previously stated 1.9GHz to 2.1GHz Agena chips. AMD has managed to increase the clock speed by 300MHz for the 89W TDP and 500MHz for the FX lineup, while keeping a very low "true" TDP (or has AMD converted yet?)

Assuming the 40% improvement holds (should be true for the quad cores, maybe not as true for the dual cores),
A 2.4GHz quad core Agena should equal a 3.36GHz Kentsfield
A 2.6GHz quad core Agena FX should equal a 3.64GHz Kentsfield XE.
A 2.8GHz dual core should equal a 3.9GHz Conroe

This move surely means that these chips will be much more competitive with Penryn et al. However Penryn has the new vector SSE4 instructions (doesn't Agena only have a subset?), so in multimedia I would expect Penryn to win.