AMD shows sunny side of Barcelona
Advanced Micro Devices is ready to start fighting back against Intel with silicon, but Intel has an answer in the waiting. AMD demonstrated its Barcelona quad-core server chip for reporters and analysts here Monday, comparing its performance to one of AMD’s dual-core Opteron processors. This marked the first time AMD shared Barcelona performance information with anyone outside of its server partners and internal folks, said Randy Allen, corporate vice president for server and workstations at AMD.
AMD did not test Barcelona’s performance against one of Intel’s quad-core Clovertown Xeon processors, but Allen said Barcelona “will be the highest-performing x86 chip out there. It will blow away Clovertown.” But soon after AMD’s Barcelona arrives, Intel will launch its Penryn processors, which are expected to be a significant improvement once again over the current generation. Allen said he couldn’t project Barcelona’s performance against Penryn, since Intel hasn’t published any benchmark results based on the forthcoming chip.
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