TechReport on Barcelona

[Nedjo]

Awesome!

Tech Report does the best CPU reviews

Hope that sarcasm!
They have ONLY ONE server benchmark (SpecJBB), and bunch of pointless and Intel optimized benchmarks (picCOLOR, MyriMatch, Stars Euler...)

For Crying out loud here is the comment for MyriMatch results:

"This application looks to be limited by memory bandwidth or some similar factor; scaling beyond four threads doesn't work out well on any of these systems"
Hi doesn't have bloody idea what does this benchmark doing?!?!
I know couple of people who are developing similar science projects that are optimizing for one or the other CPU architecture, depending what is stacked in their racks…
And what's more important TechReport doesn't have SINGLE ONE Virtualization benchmark!!! That much about professional benchmarking approach of server CPUs!

[Hornet331]

Hope that sarcasm!
They have ONLY ONE server benchmark (SpecJBB), and bunch of pointless and Intel optimized benchmarks (picCOLOR, MyriMatch, Stars Euler...)

For Crying out loud here is the comment for MyriMatch results:

"This application looks to be limited by memory bandwidth or some similar factor; scaling beyond four threads doesn't work out well on any of these systems"
Hi doesn't have bloody idea what does this benchmark doing?!?!
I know couple of people who are developing similar science projects that are optimizing for one or the other CPU architecture, depending what is stacked in their racks…
And what's more important TechReport doesn't have SINGLE ONE Virtualization benchmark!!! That much about professional benchmarking approach of server CPUs!

go here if you want server only benches.

[freeloader]

I was expecting more. However, AMD did make a great showing in the power consumption department.

[zakelwe]

The server benches look good, the desktop less so. It will be interesting to see how well it improves with motherboards and memory speeds designed for the Phenom in Q4.

I guess the happiest people will be the drop in replacement server guys who have a cheap way of boosting their current K8 based systems with little hassle. It's a no brainer for them. For the home user it still remains to be seen whether it is a good upgrade or not. It's not a disaster but it's not the second coming either.

For overclockers things look decidedly iffy at this, admittedly early, stage. It's going to have to compete against something that is likely to overclock to 4GHz+ come November and have the potential to be pretty cheap.

I hope this is not another HD2900XT, ie a good product but not up to everyones expectations cultured over the extended developement phase.

Regards

Andy