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

[Lane-k]

You are not right, The 2900Xt have been designed at start for PCI ex 2.0, (but no mobo was available).. ask overlclockers, the card begin just fly with 150mhz on PCI express. More you increase the PCI ex frequencies, more the performance are.. (and this without the bandwith gain of a 16x 16x platform)

Second thing, i don't know if we can trust 30K with this K10 but the first result with 23.7K look for me totally possible.. Now, the only thing we don't know, is how the K10 scale with overclocking, A64 was scale with low increase of frequencies.. from 2.8 -> 3ghz -> 3.2 etc.. totally invert of old Intel and CD2, who scale from 2.66-2.93 -> 4ghz -> 5ghz... More the architecture of K10 with a 4 in one QUad ( vs the 2x dual core side by side of the QX intel) scale perhaps better of the increase of frequencies.. don't forget the Intel was the first Quad architecture and we have in real no idea of the real efficacity of the architecture, like we know only this one, and we have no other point of comparaison... Look like 4x CPU (or 2 x dual core) on professional platftorm, they have a better render of efficacity in multithreaded appliccation compared to the Quad Intel... and better performance too

Anyway i don't say it's true, i just say not impossible at all.

[biohead]

You are not right, The 2900Xt have been designed at start for PCI ex 2.0, (but no mobo was available).. ask overlclockers, the card begin just fly with 150mhz on PCI express. More you increase the PCI ex frequencies, more the performance are.. (and this without the bandwith gain of a 16x 16x platform)

that is correct when dealing with extreme frequencies, not with normal air clocks (~850/1000)

[Gautam]

that is correct when dealing with extreme frequencies, not with normal air clocks (~850/1000)

Quite the opposite from what I've found. I can crank my PCI-E speeds up quite easily below 900MHz core. Around 1000MHz things get significantly harder. The gains are always pretty decent, though they sometimes get blown out of proportion.

This is all CrossFire mind you, I haven't done much single card testing TBH.