AMD Clawhammer 3400+

[CheapTOFU]

here's the link:
Hammer 3400+

 

[AGodspeed]

Yes, this benchmark very possibly shows the first benchmark ever run on AMD's first ClawHammer silicon ("A0" silicon). After all, AMD did announce that very same week that they had reached first ClawHammer silicon, of course everyone assumed that this silicon wasn't functional (since A0 silicon hardly ever is, especially such a new architecture such as the Hammer).

Of course everyone assumed wrong, as this first ClawHammer silicon was able to boot and run applications under 32-bit Windows XP and 64-bit Linux without a hitch at the Intel Developer Forum in late February.

 

[Sid03]

that was not an actual benchmark, but rather a prediction of how the hammer 3400+ would perform. at idf in late february, amd's a0 hammer was running at less than 1ghz.

a quote from anand's idf/hammer article:


<< "Now remember that these CPUs are no more than 30 days old and are the very first steppings to be released from manufacturing (A0). This demonstration of A0-stepping next-generation CPU technology has never been done in such a short amount of time by AMD. Again, we're used to seeing this type of a demo from Intel...

Unfortunately it was not running at full clock speed (which is something that Intel's demos usually do consist of), but we were told that the CPU was running as least as fast as the "other" 64-bit CPU out there (meaning at least the 800MHz - 1GHz of Itanium/McKinley). " >>


it goes on to say that it was running word and excel test scripts. but that's alot different than running a spec benchmark.


by the way, why are we linking 3 month old articles, anyway. this has been gone over before.