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To: Dan3 who wrote (189353)	3/10/2006 5:20:16 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Re: Mas, X2 will be at or above 3ghz by the time conroe is available in volume. The doubled (100% faster) FSB of the AM2 parts coupled with larger cache increases IPC performance by 10%. That means that relative to the tested chip, AMD will be at 3.3ghz (eqivalant) or higher when conroe comes out. 2.66 conroe and "Intel Prepped" 2.8ghz Athlon X2 were within a few percent of each other on some multithreaded applications, so a 3.3ghz (equivalent) Athlon X2 will trounce any Conroe at 3ghz or less. Conroe was beating Athlon by 20+% on average in all of the reviews. Even adding 10% to the Athlon performance in the review and another 10% further increase for AM2 wouldn't give a 3GHz Athlon any lead over a 3GHz Conroe, much less trounce it. The cases where Conroe was beating X2 by large numbers turned out to be Conroe running at 1024x768 and Athlon running at 1280x1024. Conroe beat Athlon by large numbers in every case. If you want to argue about the validity of the test setups and benchmarks chosen, fine. To deny there was a very big difference in the raw Athlon versus Conroe numbers is crazy.

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