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Dothan V K8 on Desktop (dual core)

Once again, everything I see points to good reason for repaving the roadmap. Of course AMD isn't sitting on their hands either and by the time these CPUs reach the market AMD will have probably have added some nice performance enhancments too. Should be a good match-up so my question is, will 64bit be a significant selling point as a feature by then?
 
Clock for clock overall dotham is aprox 90%~92% of a K8. It is faster in cache friendly applications (super pi for example), but for data intensive tasks (video, CAD) it lacks horsepower. A faster bus would surely help.

Remember, a dotham vs K8 exposes the weaknesses of the hammer line, which were well hidden against the inefficient P4: Integer operation and cache operation. However, against Dotham the weak SSE2 unit of the hammer looks potent. It would surely be a good battle.


Alex
 
Didn't one of Anand's articles say that Intel's dual core will be based on the Prescott core ??

Regards,
Jose
 
I think in the longterm this could offset hammer's potent architecture, as the Hammer is very powerful in comparison to the Pentium 4, but what will it look like up next to a Pentium M? Kinda funny that Intel will more than likely be pitching this as a new architecture to the consumers. The Hammer's SSE2 and soon SSE3 will definately look much better with the Pentium M as it's competition, gaming comparisons will be interesting between these two processors. We'll just all have to wait and see, competition is always good.
 
The main problem is that even if at 2.4 ghz Dothan can really put the hurt on A64's, the marketing falls through for Intel. They suddenly have to tell their customers that 2.4 is much better that 3.8, even though they've been shoving "mhz is everything" down the consumer's throat for years. This sudden jolt poses the risk of making consumers finally consider AMD, which poses much more of a threat than the performance crown loss has.
 
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