AMD “Barcelona” Quad-Core Details Released
Lots of news from AMD today capped off with them releasing detailed information on their “Barcelona” chip. This will be their native Quad-Core processor and AMD claims that there will be about a 40% increase in performace over its competition. Available in mid-2007, Legit Reviews hopes to be one of the first to bring you real-world results when Barcelona is released.
“Today’s IT system purchasers must weigh performance-per-watt as well as raw performance as they make their buying decisions,” noted Nathan Brookwood, Research Fellow at Insight 64. “By doubling the number of cores, adding a shared third level cache and applying a variety of other extensive CPU design enhancements, AMD’s ‘Barcelona’ designers clearly have addressed the numerator in the performance-per-watt equation. The combination of these new performance and power-saving features should drive a dramatic improvement in the already strong performance-per-watt AMD Opteron processor-based systems offer today.”
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