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

[largon]

K10 has Full Async IMC, (...)

Link?
If this were true...

[doompc]

Link?
If this were true...

I went to the Barcelona presentation and asked directly to the presenter about this. He confirmed the integer divider limitations were solved.

I'm prety sure we'll have 1MHz step memory clock adjustment all the way up to about 750MHz (DDR2-1400).

Also, the IMC received a deep upgrade (larger write bufer, dual channel is now two independent 64bit channels, DDR2-1066 official support, the data path to the northbridge was extended to 128 bits, and so on).

30k still seems unreal, but I think it will be at least 10% faster per clock than Penryn in general application, and way more in highly multithreaded workloads.

[Donnie27]

I went to the Barcelona presentation and asked directly to the presenter about this. He confirmed the integer divider limitations were solved.

Means absolutely nothing. Most of us don't believe anything Intel or AMD says without proof.

I'm prety sure we'll have 1MHz step memory clock adjustment all the way up to about 750MHz (DDR2-1400).

Also, the IMC received a deep upgrade (larger write bufer, dual channel is now two independent 64bit channels, DDR2-1066 official support, the data path to the northbridge was extended to 128 bits, and so on).

30k still seems unreal, but I think it will be at least 10% faster per clock than Penryn in general application, and way more in highly multithreaded workloads.

3DMarks has always proven its uselessness for anything other than like platform stability testing and etc..... Since it doesn't correlate to any real-world game/s, trying to use it as a standard is misleading to say the least. Please note, I said the same thing when P4 was winning*.

How much faster is K10? I don't think there will be a single Performance number advantage. Some apps it might be 25% faster, other apps might show it as being 20% slower.

[xenolith]

Hmmm...

K10 x RD790 x X2900XT CF x engineered and optimizated from the ground up within one Co. that has a proven track record for innovation = 30K 3DMark06? It's not impossible!

Hey... get away from my dream... it's all mine... *walks away laughing sinisterly*

[T2k]

Hmmm...

K10 x RD790 x X2900XT CF x engineered and optimizated from the ground up within one Co. that has a proven track record for innovation = 30K 3DMark06? It's not impossible!

Hey... get away from my dream... it's all mine... *walks away laughing sinisterly*

2900 has almost literally NOTHING to do with AMD. Its design stems from former ATI and was done well before the merge.

[T2k]

And you just bought yourself a 3 day vacation for your nasty mouth.
Enjoy!

I'm actually now more interested in their implementation of more than 2 GPUs in Crossfire. Since Nvidia's Quad SLI was a bust. Maybe they have figured out a better way to distribute the load between the GPUs than Nvidia did.

Wow, these XtremeDays go fast.

[CraptacularOne]

Wow, these XtremeDays go fast.

Please move on, there was a simple misunderstanding is all.

[xenolith]

2900 has almost literally NOTHING to do with AMD. Its design stems from former ATI and was done well before the merge.

Designs go through several iterations before production. Still, point taken.

[SOLDNER-MOFO64]

I'm just happy that AMD are finally gonna release K10 very soon. My benchmarks are beginning to look like some from my AXP days....

Can't wait to get my hands on one

Intel's CSI sounds interesting......and regardless of mistakes made in the past...Intel don't seem to make many blunders these days.