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To: eracer who wrote (189369)	3/11/2006 11:59:57 AM
From: Ruppert	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Intel showed NO benchmarks at IDF, instead Intel is leaking selected benchmarks through third party fanboy web sites. That is Intels top end Conroe with 4 megs of cache, not a mid range chip. The Athlon64 FX has one meg of cache. Seven applications and 10 benchmarks sounds like a lot, but its four FPS games and three encoders. Games only care about Floating Point performance and bandwidth, Encoders only care about SSE and bandwidth. The vast majority of applications are integer based and never use Floating Point or SSE, and most don't care about bandwidth. Conroe has updated SSE and updated Floating Point, much like AMDs K8L which is due out next year. When Conroe comes out and people run real benchmarks on it they will see Conroe's hype is just that. Conroe will offer roughly the same performance per clock as the Athlon64, but that the Athlon will clock faster and thus perform better on most benchmarks, including floating point and SSE when K8L comes out. theinquirer.net Conroe would only be relevant if it was across the board benchmark dominant over Athlon64 the way Athlon64 was over P4. Instead its fab 36 that will define the fate of AMD and Intel.