AMD to come clean on Barcelona performance - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 6th Jul 2007, 18:25

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/07...rcelona_perf/1

An AMD spokesperson has reportedly promised honest benchmark results for its upcoming Barcelona CPUs in the coming weeks...

Amon · 6th Jul 2007, 18:41

I found AMD's comparisons to be perfectly fair. I'm glad that they didn't pull the marketing stunt that Intel did when comparing their 5355 Xeon against dual-core Opterons.

bubsterboo · 6th Jul 2007, 19:06

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Originally Posted by Amon

I found AMD's comparisons to be perfectly fair. I'm glad that they didn't pull the marketing stunt that Intel did when comparing their 5355 Xeon against dual-core Opterons.

What marketing stunt would that be?

Amon · 6th Jul 2007, 19:09

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Originally Posted by bubsterboo

What marketing stunt would that be?

This one.

bubsterboo · 6th Jul 2007, 19:17

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Originally Posted by Amon

This one.

Interesting, can barely read the fine print since its so low-res.
Anyways, this kind of thing happens all the time.

Amon · 6th Jul 2007, 19:31

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Originally Posted by bubsterboo

Interesting, can barely read the fine print since its so low-res.
Anyways, this kind of thing happens all the time.

Not in defence of AMD, but there are a glaring inconsistencies and incorrect data about AMD processors in that presentation as well. In a live Powerpointless presentation, the audience wouldn't be able to verify that data on the fly, allowing for the misrepresentation to pass in support of Intel.

trig · 6th Jul 2007, 20:48

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Originally Posted by Amon

I found AMD's comparisons to be perfectly fair.

you'd be the only one. im not saying intel has never done it, because they have, but 2 wrongs dont make a right. i just think its hilarious that it is getting all this publicity. so they "set-up" some benchies...are you surprised? im not. i was hoping for them to blow the doors off the xeon's, but o well. hopefully they can stay afloat for now with price cuts...

identikit · 6th Jul 2007, 21:30

Well I've voted...with my wallet...

You'll have to wait and see if I'm either A) chuffed to bits or B) gutted.

completemadness · 7th Jul 2007, 21:04

i thought this was an internal thing or something ? that was leaked onto the Internet, so really, as it wasn't meant to be for external viewing, i don't see the problem (assuming it was internal)

f00dl3 · 8th Jul 2007, 19:31

It's no surprise they are using an older chipset model to compare the quad core to. After all, Intel had the quads out the door almost 6 months ago and here we are still waiting on AMD.

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completemadness Hypermodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 887	i thought this was an internal thing or something ? that was leaked onto the Internet, so really, as it wasn't meant to be for external viewing, i don't see the problem (assuming it was internal)

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f00dl3 Minimodder Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 36	It's no surprise they are using an older chipset model to compare the quad core to. After all, Intel had the quads out the door almost 6 months ago and here we are still waiting on AMD.