Official AMD Barcelona Thread

[BrowncoatGR]

Wrong. C2D is fully 128bit SSE (on all 3 SSE decoders).



Wrong. The integer unit in C2D is MUCH better than that in K8.



Do you have a clue what you are talking about? Phenom IS BARCELONA (same core, just different sockets - desktop vs. server).

While i dont think a 10% IPC for Phenom over Barcelona is reasonable these are not the same processors for different sockets. Barcelona is a HT2 cpu using up to DDR2 5300 registered memory whereas Phenom is a HT3 cpu using up to DDR2 8500, which gives Phenoma huge advantage in Memory bandwidth. Whether Phenom can use the increased memory bandwidth to get improved performance remains anyone's guess right now but id say it will at least give it a slight advantage clock for clock.