AMD Phenom Preview: Barcelona Desktop Benchmarks
by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 10, 2007 12:03 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
2.0GHz Today, 2.5GHz Tomorrow
At the last minute, AMD informed us that we'd be receiving three sets of Barcelona processors: a pair of 1.9GHz chips, 2.0GHz chips and 2.5GHz chips. The latter won't be shipping until Q4 of this year, but AMD wanted to show that Barcelona is yielding at higher clock speeds and that there is a roadmap going forward.
Barcelona - 1.9GHz
Barcelona - 2.0GHz
To be honest, we expected 2.5GHz by the end of year from AMD, and slightly higher on the desktop but it's good to actually have silicon in hand instead of empty promises or hunches.
AMD taking notes from Intel, hand written clock speeds are in.
With 2.5GHz in hand today, we'd expect Phenom to be at or below 2.6GHz by the end of the year, with 3.0GHz coming sometime in 2008.
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AbRASiON - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
Anand's final page sums it up really.Pythias - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
I sure as hell hope not. If either side prevails, say goodbye to affordable processors.hifisoftware - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
I guess it means we just have to say good buy to affordable processors then. Maybe AMD can ramp-up speeds very fast, but until they get there, they will be hurting/losing money. How much can they bleed red ink until it's too much?Howard - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
We'll have more Barcelona server content coming as we spend more time with the system, but be sure to check out Johan's coverage to get a good idea of how Barcelona will compete in its //indended// market.MDme - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
I have a feeling that Barcelona will be much more competitive in the server market compared with the desktop market. i.e. Barcey will hold off intel in the server space while it may not be enough to dethrone intel in the desktop arena, it will at least narrow the gap with intel.DeepThought86 - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
Barcelona, the chip that launched a thousand flames!Fanbois on both sides: on your mark, get set, go!
KeypoX - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
Didnt know why i couldnt view it till now but been waiting all day :)Frags - Saturday, September 15, 2007 - link
AMD needs a Forrest Gump moment with the leg braces flying off to run away from the Bully.The road to Barcelona was a Flop. They need to cut their path to 45nm in half or recieve a blood transfusion soon.
KeypoX - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
but it was called "AMD's Quadcore: defending new found territory" on my google Anandtech article channel.Thatguy97 - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - link
lol i sadly remember this embarrising launch