AnandTech in possession of Prescott CPU!

[Pandaren]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11887

So, I want to know from the Editors what the performance of this CPU is. And don't deny you have a Prescott, because the Inquirer is never wrong

 

[jfall]

They have already announced on the forum that they have the CPU

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1152415&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=&STARTPAGE=1

And yes, we have a 2.8GHz Prescott processor, I received it last week at Computex...

 

[Conor026]

Some weird trick on us or do they really have it?

 

[MDE]

And yes, we have a 2.8GHz Prescott processor, I received it last week at Computex...

I think they have one. The review page said 2.8 GHz Intel Prescott, I see no reason for Anand or Evan (who confirmed they had a Prescott) to lie about this.

 

[Chadder007]

So when is it going to be tested??
Also ...is it true that it contains the 64 bit instruction set from the Athlon 64 through licensing?

 

[NFS4]

Yes, they have a 2.8 Prescott. Anand told me about it a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Pariah]

Be wary, it might just be an OC'd Northwood designed to give "ballpark figures" of a 2.8GHz Prescott in an upcoming Prescott preview.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Pariah
Be wary, it might just be an OC'd Northwood designed to give "ballpark figures" of a 2.8GHz Prescott in an upcoming Prescott preview.

What the f*** are you smoking? Overclocked Northwood?

 

[First]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress

Originally posted by: Pariah
Be wary, it might just be an OC'd Northwood designed to give "ballpark figures" of a 2.8GHz Prescott in an upcoming Prescott preview.

What the f*** are you smoking? Overclocked Northwood?

He still can't get over the fact that our A64 preview from last month predicted A64/FX performance almost perfectly. Read here for a laugh, page 3 specifically.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I thought this comment by a Beyond3D forum member to be pretty funny in regards to Anand's XT article:

So he's benchmarking unreleased hardware (NV38) with unreleased drivers (52.xx) on an unreleased cpu (Prescott). And who knows when any of those will be released. Nice tandem.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress

Originally posted by: Pariah
Be wary, it might just be an OC'd Northwood designed to give "ballpark figures" of a 2.8GHz Prescott in an upcoming Prescott preview.

What the f*** are you smoking? Overclocked Northwood?

He still can't get over the fact that our A64 preview from last month predicted A64/FX performance almost perfectly. Read here for a laugh, page 3 specifically.

Ok, I stayed out of that last thread, but I have to disagree with "predicted A64/FX performance almost perfectly"...

In the Final Words of the A64 preview, Wesley stated However, in some of the very latest DX9 benchmarks, Athlon64/Opteron was 40% to 50% faster."... Presuming he meant that it was "40%-50%" faster than a P4-3.2c, which benchmarks is he talking about? Please correct me if I am wrong, but I don't recall any where there is that much of a lead.

 

[Pariah]

Interesting how one CPU can "almost perfectly" predict the performance of 2 CPU's when compared to the P4 3.2, the A64 was on average 5% faster in games and the FX was on average 20% faster. Most people wouldn't consider an average 15% difference as a trivial amount and certainly not almost perfect.

Summary

A nice job of Nostradumus predicting though. Trying to make the evidence fit the prediction after the fact.

 

[Accord99]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
In the Final Words of the A64 preview, Wesley stated However, in some of the very latest DX9 benchmarks, Athlon64/Opteron was 40% to 50% faster."... Presuming he meant that it was "40%-50%" faster than a P4-3.2c, which benchmarks is he talking about? Please correct me if I am wrong, but I don't recall any where there is that much of a lead.

Gunmetal. But then, they didn't bother to use Gunmetal for the actual review, and other sites which did use Gunmetal, such as Tom's, show a much smaller difference.

 

[Eug]

The Inquirer does some digging, and confirms Anand has the Prescott.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: Eug
The Inquirer does some digging, and confirms Anand has the Prescott.

Heh... Did you even bother to read the very first post in this thread, braniac?

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: Wingznut

Originally posted by: Eug
The Inquirer does some digging, and confirms Anand has the Prescott.

Heh... Did you even bother to read the very first post in this thread, braniac?

OK I admit it. I'm a moron.

For some reason I missed that one. Doh!