yeah... superpi is much more important for human life.... who cares HPC (High Perfomance Computing), eh?Originally Posted by terrace215
yeah... superpi is much more important for human life.... who cares HPC (High Perfomance Computing), eh?
Last edited by PetNorth; 09-09-2007 at 03:12 PM.
Superpi?
How about specINT, specFP, specINT_rate? Intel wins all of these, even CLOCK for CLOCK!
Add in the clock speed advantage, the manufacturing advantage, the Q4-arriving 45nm and improved platform (Seaburg) boost, and it's hard to see how AMD digs itself out of the current hole with the K10.
yeah yeah... or whatever
how about specFP_rate?
ah wait thats irrelevant, it is AMD cherry picked... not valid...
Last edited by PetNorth; 09-09-2007 at 03:19 PM.
No it is valid as a measure of floating point performance but it just is not representative of the entire pool of applications. AMD did not cherry pick, they simply choose to show their product in the best light... just as Intel shows SpecINT preferably because that is where they shine....
Focusing your attention on SpecFP and extrapolating something great across the board is simply setting yourself up for disappointment.
There are plenty of other important server benchmarks, but it clearly looks like Barcelona will only look good on HPC ones.
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