Quote Originally Posted by mstp2009 View Post
What people are comparing is IPC, and for that Phenom and Barcelona are identical in architecture and memory timings will make AT BEST only a 1-2% improvement. So no, Phenom = Barcelona for these comparisons.
so you think that going from ECC DDR-667 to regular DDR2-1066 is nothing more than a 1-2% improvement?


Quote Originally Posted by mstp2009 View Post
K8s were never THAT slow to begin with. Over the span of 3 years, the different revisions only added MAYBE 8-10% TOTAL improvement over those 3 years (and most of that came in the one step of going to a dual memory bus on Socket 939). How many revisions since the E4/E6 cores have shown IPC improvements? None. And Brisbane was actually a small step BACKWARDS.
If i remember it correctly,the first K8 was an opteron @ 1.4 GHz - 1.6GHz
he is not talking about the architecture being slow,he is talking about clockspeeds......