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To: DDB_WO who wrote (227988)	3/13/2007 10:56:17 AM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

However, have fun interpreting it and doubting the source ;-) What, no S1207 Opterons? Uhh... fpg

To: DDB_WO who wrote (227988)	3/13/2007 11:46:00 AM
From: dougSF30	Respond to of 275872

That is at least sensible, with "Agena" capped at 2.5GHz/120W just like Barcelona, and the Dual Core Kuma desktop the only one to go into the 2.7-2.9GHz range. The 2.3GHz part using 120W is not good, if true, with 2.1GHz the fastest single-socket Barcelona @ 95W.

To: DDB_WO who wrote (227988)	3/19/2007 6:10:23 AM
From: Rink	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

AMD's GDC 2007 slide set (with many SSE128 details) By Dresdenboy (Recent posts) Monday, March 19, 2007 3:17 AM EST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slide 24 now clearly tells us, that SSE128 won't make scalar SSE code (and x87 code) faster than it is in K8. So for this kind of code only the other core improvements would apply. The INQ was unfortunately wrong on this. But there wouldn't have been the bandwidth (decode, L1, L/S) to support a sustained double throughput of scalar SSE code. Also the L1 still only supports 64 bit stores. Load latency increased by one cycle. Matrix math will be 85% faster per core. Other math intensive apps gain 10% to 50%. Etc.. Just read yourself. I just found the pdf using google looking for something different :) Link: developer.amd.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Above post copied from Aces: aceshardware.com DDB, your find made it to the Inq: uk.theinquirer.net The Inq article mentions 8-core desktops this year. I'm sure this will be in the form of dual socket Torrenza A64 FX boards though. Still it sounds kinda cool. Regards, Rink