Official Phenom Reviews Thread

[GoThr3k]

So if the reviewers aren't showing Phenom as being 40% faster, AMD still lied their @$$es off, right?

amd never said that it would be 40% faster overall................

[Periander6]

amd never said that it would be 40% faster overall................

The exact quote, from Randy Allen was:

"Barcelona is going to be able to deliver performance levels for many workloads in excess of 40% beyond what Clovertown can."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_n3wvsfq4Y

A pretty comical video in hindsight.

[ryboto]

The exact quote, from Randy Allen was:

"Barcelona is going to be able to deliver performance levels for many workloads in excess of 40% beyond what Clovertown can."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_n3wvsfq4Y

A pretty comical video in hindsight.

Well, he said "many workloads". And for multiple socket systems, Barcelona's do offer higher performance versus an equivalent intel xeon system, at least that's what the benchmarks showed. Or maybe he was only referring to specific SPEC benchmarks.

[Shintai]

Well, he said "many workloads". And for multiple socket systems, Barcelona's do offer higher performance versus an equivalent intel xeon system, at least that's what the benchmarks showed. Or maybe he was only referring to specific SPEC benchmarks.

SpecFp_rates and stream bench...real world was a whole other story where the marketing bluff cracked.

[ryboto]

SpecFp_rates and stream bench...real world was a whole other story where the marketing bluff cracked.

yea, pretty annoying. It's their job to spin it positively, not much of a defense, a lame excuse.

[Donnie27]

amd never said that it would be 40% faster overall................

No they didn't they said in; "across a wide variety of workloads". What and where I ask? I saw NOTHING of the sort LOL!

http://www.news.com/AMD-Go-to-Barcel...3-6152645.html

When it comes to quad-core chips, good things come to those who wait, Advanced Micro Devices believes.

After years breathing AMD's dust, Intel beat its rival to the punch by releasing its quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processor for servers in November. But AMD's "Barcelona" quad-core chip, due to arrive midway through 2007, will be a significant notch faster than the Clovertown chips expected to be on the market at that time, said Randy Allen, AMD's corporate vice president for server and workstation products.

"We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," Allen said. The quad-core chip also will outperform AMD's current dual-core Opterons on "floating point" mathematical calculations by a factor of 3.6 at the same clock rate, he said

That was parroted here by many on the Green team and asked loudly, "surely AMD wouldn't lie that much?" Ask Informal? The whole epilogue was to insert FUD and have shoppers wait or delay buying from Intel when AMD knew they didn't have a damned thing.