Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
My critizism (If I had some because the first was a simple joke) is for how Anandtech presented the facts. i7 is a very fast processor, it is almost like that they have done it to be good for databases. It is a bandwidth monster. But they applaud Intel for having L3 cache and other things used to improve multithreading and in the same article they say that AMD is bad knowing that they was first with L3 and hypertransport (QPI for intel). I don't know how much more you can prove that you isn't neutral.
The facts in the article was way to sparse to do any conclusions what I think. It is no brainer though that i7 will get very good performance running databases. I also think they have some new instructions for parsing data or if some instructions have improved for this (don't remember)
IMHO, it is not about a Fast Processor but a well balanced architecture that had been hobbled by safe but slower features. Hypertransport is born from Alpha EV6 and of all people, RAMBUS. Intel FAB-ed some of the Alpha's. Intel had L3 long before AMD even dreamed about it. Did we forget the P4 Extreme with L3? Give AMD credit for what the really did like X86-64 but please try to stop doing it for stuff they did come up with.

Again, put two Dothan PentiumMs on a QPI and they'd kick mucho-@$$ here. GamePC showed just how much they rocked with a crippled platform. I remember folks partial to the Green Team saying it was fake, just as they said when the first Conroe tests showed up. Many here on this forum Doubted the first i7 reviews when others thought they were s/low. This parallel monster gets meaner as its L3 grows, memory controller/s get larger/faster and yes, QPI speeds up. The biggest problem AMD has is that Intel