Quote Originally Posted by Aussie FX View Post
You are twisting the facts here.
Barcelona is actually 40% faster than the equivalent clocked Xeon in Specfp_rate which is exactly what AMD said in the first place.
This claim of 40% over C2D is completely false and the rumour came from the web with people having no understanding of what they are talkibg about. I hope that clears it up for you , so you to can now stop posting that falsehood.
You have made some good points but on this one I will have to say you're wrong. This was a quote from Randy Allen back in 2007.


"We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," Allen said.

He used this broad term that got everyone really excited when in reallity barcelona was 40% faster but only in specfp_rate.

http://news.cnet.com/AMD-Go-to-Barce...3-6152645.html

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5863

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06...arcelona_2ghz/

oh and of course: http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2007/04...e-running.html

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

BTW I don't think Mr. Allen works for AMD anymore, I wonder why...