tomshardware.com — "As we've seen, Core 2 Quadro represents a significant step ahead, which AMD cannot counter until its 65 nm quad core processors will be available in H2/2007. AMD needs 4x4 now."Generally, same gaming performance, amazing ~80% gains in threaded software like video encoding or HD rendering.
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jdongSep 12, 2006
Umm, the 2 core duo design is better than 4 individual cores, because at least 2 of the cores share L2 cache with each other. Combine that with something like the Linux 2.6.17 shared-cache-aware scheduler, and you can get a bit more performance out of it.The ultimate design will be 4 cores that can fully share cache with each other, and that is coming.AMD 4x4 is more of a hack. There is nothing fake about the Kentsfield.
lostspyderSep 12, 2006
Who cares if AMD counters? Its not going to be anywhere near a comsumer level chip anyhow. For the people who have realy wanted/needed/could actualy use all 4 cores, they had them years ago in multi-cpu setups.
wildleafSep 12, 2006
I was just excited to see L2 cache listed as "2x4096Kb" So 8M cache over 4 processors (4mb per each duo). They are definately increasing the idea of the shared cache and I am fairly sure a shared L3 cache could successfully combine those of all 4( or 10) processors in the long run.
elpipetuanisSep 12, 2006
How can you say they are 10 years behind? They were were beating Intel in almost every benchmark you threw at them up until the Core 2 Duo came out, so how can you say that they are 10 years behind, I would have said that intel was behind but even then not 10 years because they obviously caught up. AMD may be behind a few month on their processes but not 10 yrs.
cavengerSep 12, 2006
I need a processor for CG rendering in 3dsmax. The benchmarks show what Kentsfield can do.
daridaveSep 12, 2006
You're all real funny with your fanboyism. I don't care -- AMD, Intel, heck even a Cell processor lol, as long as my rig is FAST. Besides, competition is good, look at how prices are droping. Keep 'em coming !
jdongSep 12, 2006
@mooninite, yes certainly, it be nice if they did some GNU/Linux testing, even with the Core Duo / Core 2 Duos.According to the kernel developer who wrote the patch, it boosts performance by around 5% on standard benchmarks, and I expect that would only get better when applied to the Quadro.
jimxugleSep 12, 2006
I'll wait till AMD can get smaller processes and 4 cores onto one chip. Until then, the only foreseeable computer-related purchases I have is a MacBook Pro/iPod when I graduate.