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2.0GHZ Barcelona benchmarks have been released by Anandtech This is the end result: AnandTech: AMD's Quad-Core Barcelona: Defending New Territory
2.0GHZ is only the initial release of Barcelona. It will be ramped up very quickly in the coming months. And given the HyperTransport bus, which is even faster with the new Opterons, it should scale even better when clock speeds are increased.
However, Barcelona still does not utilise Hypertransport 3.0, and uses registered ECC memory, which does create a bit of a performance hit
Agena will include HyperTransport 3.0, and will use regular DDR2 RAM at DDR2-1066 speed. So I am expecting Agena to scale even better. Also, it will be interesting to see how the K10 performs when running games, which is one of the things AMD's CPU's tend to be better in.
Basically, Barcelona is better than Clovertown clock for clock in all but the Fritz Chess engine, and highly optimized Intel binaries, and 3DS Max 9 which it equalledOpteron 2350 (2GHz) equates to Xeon clock speed of:
General applications:
WinRAR 3.62 - 2.7 GHz
Fritz Chess engine - 1.8 GHz
HPC applications
Intel optimized Linpack - 1.9 GHz
3D Applications 3DS Max 9 - 2 GHz
zVisuel 3D Kribi Engine - 2.33 - 2.4 GHz
zVisuel 3D Kribi Engine (AA) - 2.4 GHz
Server applications Specjbb - 2.4 GHz
MySQL - 2.33 GHz
2.0GHZ is only the initial release of Barcelona. It will be ramped up very quickly in the coming months. And given the HyperTransport bus, which is even faster with the new Opterons, it should scale even better when clock speeds are increased.
However, Barcelona still does not utilise Hypertransport 3.0, and uses registered ECC memory, which does create a bit of a performance hit
Agena will include HyperTransport 3.0, and will use regular DDR2 RAM at DDR2-1066 speed. So I am expecting Agena to scale even better. Also, it will be interesting to see how the K10 performs when running games, which is one of the things AMD's CPU's tend to be better in.