News Dual-Core Duel: AMD Tops Intel

ExtremeTech have had the dual-core offerings of both the big-boys, and are apparently calling the first round of the battle in AMD's favour:

We recently got our hands on a dual-core Opteron test kit from AMD, and decided to pit it against the Pentium 4 840 Extreme Edition we previewed recently. These are not chips aimed at exactly the same markets, but the Opteron is so architecturally similar to an Athlon 64 in that it provides a reasonable facsimile of Athlon 64 desktop performance. There are differences, of course—Athlon 64 CPUs don't have as many hypertransport links for multi-CPU systems, typically ship at faster clock speeds, and don't use registered RAM—but the core architecture is nearly identical. Rather than test it as a pure server platform, we used a uniprocessor system and a desktop graphics card to see how a dual-core desktop Athlon 64 might perform. ​

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Thoughts? I'm sure the AMD fanboys would like to chime in, and of course Chipzilla Zelots will want to rebut... And remember, Marquis of Queensbury Rules are in effect, Lads - so keep it clean.

 

In that case, I'll start
w00t l0l int3l g0tz t3h pwns0r3d!

 

Other benchmarks indicate AMD finally will have strong video editing performance. Awesome

 

Looks like AMD have been putting some very hard work indeed into those Dual-Core CPU's, let's hope the AMD64 X2 keeps up the image so far.
I was especially pleased with the gaming results - beating that 3.73Ghz P4EE in Single-threaded gaming tests was quite an achievement for a slow-clock workstation processor with registered memory; a sample of greater things to come i hope - SLi with one of those Dual Core babies in tow will certainly be very entertaining, especially with twin threaded games...

 

Am I the first to point out that the Pentium D and Opteron are 2 completely different markets? That is somewhat akin to comparing a cray to a 286 (though not as extreme).

Would be a more valid comparison if it was desktop vs desktop or server vs server

 

The 4000+ is still probably the most sensible processor for the moment

 

not really
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1788688,00.asp
they've made it as close to a desktop version as possible, wouldn't expect performance to be far off that

 

And thanks to the mysteries of BIOS updates, that will be very easy for the AMD folks like myself.

 

Why?? Not saying your wrong just wanting to know.

Mickey

 

Absolutely. If they test dual core Xeons to Opterons, then fine, same market, or Pentium Ds to X2s.

 

That doesnt change the fact that this article was published more than four months ago...