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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 259.65+2.3%Jan 23 9:30 AM EST
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To: dougSF30 who wrote (188965)3/7/2006 11:01:12 PM
From: eracerRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
Re: I think AM2 might well perform even more than 10% better on these benches, due to the increased bandwidth. And certainly an FX with extra L3 cache will get a nice boost.

You remember this, right?

theinquirer.net;

Of course Conroe performance might also increase if Intel, NVIDIA or ATI create chipsets which use DDR2-800 or 3-3-3 DDR2-667 instead of the 4-4-4 DDR2-667 used in this review.

The 4MB L3 cache should help quite a bit in certain games and a few other apps. The on-die memory controller and high bandwidth DDR2-800 are going to limit its effect though. It is a short term crutch, but is not going to give the type of consistent gains in a variety of benchmarks that an improved architecture would deliver. If it arrives at 3.2GHz around the time the rumored Conroe XE 3.33 does it might be a decent competitor in some benchmarks. If it is <3.2GHz and arrives a quarter or two later it will probably be too little too late.
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