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To: mas_ who wrote (226992)	2/28/2007 12:51:07 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Yeah, you should read his entire post, mas. ROFL. I think that slides 7 and 8 in this presentation give the clearest picture yet of what AMD is up against: media.corporate-ir.net The clueless droids see this long list of Barcelona improvements, and start applying a flat 1-2% performance improvement for each bullet item, and before you know it performance has doubled. It's laughable. The fact is, each architectural improvement will provide a varying performance boost on certain applications. You put enough of them together, and you end up with a modest overall performance improvement. I have heard from folks who have closely investigated Barcelona's architecture that they are expecting about an overall 15% improvement in integer IPC over Opteron. Some focused FP applications (specFP_rate, linpak) could see significant increases, and you can bet AMD will hype this to no end. Of course, nevermind that AMD will see minimal financial benefit from Barcelona until '08, and any practical performance comparisons will need to be made with Penryn and then Nehalem (and then Westmere, and then Gesher, and on it goes...) Pass the pipe, please....