Friday, June 7, 2002
First Clawhammer benchmarks
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 11:25 AM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25625.html
Mmm - Clawhammer. With a code-name like that, you're going to have high expectations. AMD's next generation CPU, launching under the name "Opteron" (I believe), has spit out some insanely powerful benchmarks. Too early to make any final decisions, but if I'm interpreting the benchmarks correctly, the Clawhammer/Opteron chip at 800 mhz spit out as many frames per second in Quake III as a 1600 mhz Pentium 4. Yikes!
"You know when a German tech site has got hold of a big story or review - it publishes an English-language version. Germany's TecChannel has got a biggie: the first benchmarks of AMD's upcoming 64-bit ClawHammer desktop CPU gained after running a prototype machine on the AMD Computex booth in Taiwan through its paces for an hour. There are more caveats than a lawyer's letter. The software used for testing was 32-bit; it's a prototype; the chip may have been locked at 800MHz, so a direct comparison should only be made with an 800MHz Athlon etcetera. etcetera. But the rig is stable, the ClawHammer performs up to 40 per cent faster than an Athlon running at the same clock rate. And the chip is cool - not even hand-hot in operation."
Mmm - Clawhammer. With a code-name like that, you're going to have high expectations. AMD's next generation CPU, launching under the name "Opteron" (I believe), has spit out some insanely powerful benchmarks. Too early to make any final decisions, but if I'm interpreting the benchmarks correctly, the Clawhammer/Opteron chip at 800 mhz spit out as many frames per second in Quake III as a 1600 mhz Pentium 4. Yikes!
"You know when a German tech site has got hold of a big story or review - it publishes an English-language version. Germany's TecChannel has got a biggie: the first benchmarks of AMD's upcoming 64-bit ClawHammer desktop CPU gained after running a prototype machine on the AMD Computex booth in Taiwan through its paces for an hour. There are more caveats than a lawyer's letter. The software used for testing was 32-bit; it's a prototype; the chip may have been locked at 800MHz, so a direct comparison should only be made with an 800MHz Athlon etcetera. etcetera. But the rig is stable, the ClawHammer performs up to 40 per cent faster than an Athlon running at the same clock rate. And the chip is cool - not even hand-hot in operation."
