AMD's 4*4

[SolMiester]

Originally posted by: JAG87

Originally posted by: cmrmrc
why is the title saying DUAL QUAD system?

and why is the guy pointing at the 2 processors while saying 2 more gfx cards???

rofl, exactly my thoughts.

and what is so impressive... wow a kentsfield will blow that system out of the water.
for one thing it can overclock much further than AMD chips, and it beats them clock for clock, so why in hell would anyone describe 4x4 as enthusiast. I thought enthusiast was the cream of of the crop, and 4x4 certainly is not.

Oh, there has been a review comparing them?

 

[Stoneburner]

Maybe i'm wrong but isn't th eperformance gap between kentsfield and 4x4 going to be less than intel dual core v. amd dual core because amd architecture is better at scaling? I mean sure intel got 2 processors on one chip but isn't there going to be a performance loss that the AMD's HT links will not have?

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
Maybe i'm wrong but isn't th eperformance gap between kentsfield and 4x4 going to be less than intel dual core v. amd dual core because amd architecture is better at scaling? I mean sure intel got 2 processors on one chip but isn't there going to be a performance loss that the AMD's HT links will not have?

Yes...that was my point as well. Intel's new core performs much better than AMD's, but AMD still scales much better because of HT. So the more cores you add, the slimmer becomes Intel's lead...
This is why K8L will be so important to AMD...it should bring their cores in line with Intel's Core 2 giving them an advantage across the board again.

That said, Intel has "Nehalem" on-deck for a 2H 08 launch...it will be 45nm, on-die mem controller, and CSI (Intel's version of HT).

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: SolMiester
Oh, there has been a review comparing them?

Not a chance, they haven't been released yet.