Barcelona to have 40% floating Point & 10+% Int Gains over X5355

[flippin_waffles]

Good work Fudo! I believe!!! 

[Illuminati]

The Penryn 3.33 GHz 40% advatage over 2.88GHz Clovertown is bullshit.
They use specific benchmarks and alpha version of software with SSE4 optimisations.

This is Intel marketing at its best... 

In reality, Penryn will be ~8% faster than a C2D at the same frequency.

[Urban Assault!]

The new news to the K10 parts sound great (66% more fp power, w00t), i hope they´re real
I hope that will help amd to sail through the storm

Yes... me 2

[jimm1909]

Just been reading EE times and it has an AMD exec stating that there are going to be double digit gains over the 2.66 Clovertown. It's a little difficult to work out which Chip will, so you can only hope it's the 2.3ghz Barcelona Spain and not a future 2.7 

Anyway it's an interesting read as they demonstrated the Quad Core with a R600 combo (probably a AMD/ATI motherboard too).

Separately, AMD gave one of the first public demos of the R600, its next-generation graphics controller that uses 320 multiply-accumulate units. The company showed a Barcelona-based system using two 200W R600 graphics cards to hit a terabit/second benchmark.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197700269

Also, anandtech have a very interesting article about the architecture of the K10, check it out here

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2939

Very interesting read indeed.