Anandtech AMD Socket-AM2 Performance Preview

jmke · 10th April 2006, 11:40

The disheartening news for AMD and its fans alike is that if AM2 can't offer significant performance increases over what we have now, then all Intel has to do is execute Conroe on schedule, delivering the performance we've been promised and 2006 will be painted blue. AMD has been telling us that 2007 is the year we'll see major architectural changes to their processors, so AM2 may very well be as good as it gets for now. That's still very good, of course - the fastest X2 chips still outperform the fastest Pentium D chips - but it looks like after three years K8 may finally get some competition for the performance crown.

jmke · 10th April 2006, 11:45

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As you can see, given almost a 9% increase in memory bandwidth, we saw similarly small increases in overall performance. It would seem that the Athlon 64, at its current clock speeds, just simply isn't starved enough for memory bandwidth to benefit from an increase in bandwidth. You'll also see that the areas where faster DDR memory helped back then are pretty much the areas where DDR2-800 is showing gains today.

We shared this with our readers back in MAY 2005! http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=325

2 months before Anandtech and 1 year before this article

The Senile Doctor · 10th April 2006, 11:53

we know it all 1 year earlier!

Sidney · 10th April 2006, 13:07

We expected what others would find out later on

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