AMD's 3GHz K10 to break 30,000 3DMark06 (Inq)

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Ok, I'm not believing this article either, but for the "impossible" guys I'm just going to come out and say...

Remember when the C2D came out? Remember how difficult it was to even hit 20k in 05 at that time? C2D came out, and people were beating the extreme cooled A64 results on air without even trying.

So is this impossible? No, it's not. Is it true? Possibly, possibly not.

p.s.
Shintai, we cannot fully assume that the gpu scores would be lower. Different platform, and IIRC in CF SM3 is VERY cpu limited and as such scales VERY well with cpu speed.

QFT

Also very interesting comments from the altest TechArp article:

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=434

John says the Quad-Core Opteron systems had already been submitted to the benchmark organizations for testing. The results are all under NDA and will only be released on launch date, September 10, 2007. Because they are under NDA, he cannot reveal the actual results, but he gave us some interesting indications of how the Barcelona will eventually fare against an equivalent Intel processor.[

* 20-30% better performance overall
* 170% better performance in some benchmarks

Lats bit of information actually supports the Theo's leaked information on the mark06 amazing score.