First AMD Clawhammer Benchmarks!
Posted by: NewsFactory on: 06/09/2002 02:44 PM [ Print | 3 comment(s) ] · 2385 views
There's a first Quake3-Benchmark with a Pre-Production 800 MHz Clawhammer-CPU. They compared it to a 1600 MHz P4 and a Athlon XP 2000+. Funny thing is that the Clawhammer (183 FPS) beats the P4 (182 FPS). Only the Athlon is faster (210 FPS)!
Read the whole thing at Tecchannel.de (german and english version available).
Read the whole thing at Tecchannel.de (german and english version available).
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MagamiAKO Unregistered |
#37200 Posted on: 06/09/2002 04:04 PM
and just a day before there were reports that early hammer samples didn't perform as well as expected. There are a few things one must take into account that this *could be* false. One, it just so happens that the CPU performs on the level of 'twice as fast' as the clock. I.E. it matches a P4 1.6 while only being 800Mhz. If anyone here knows anything about '64 bit', this is not the case. This in fact doesn't happen on those expensive CPUs due to 64 bit. Most of their performance come from heavy optimizations in other areas(such as Intel's EPIC which can execute 20 things at once). I do believe this benchmark is conveniently put out because the people who originally said it know what people are going to think. Most people will think "64 bit" twice the performance, thus 800 performing like 1600. If only the people realized that Quake 3 is not optimized for 64 bit in the first place, then they'd realize that it's even more BS. But whatever, I'm just making a statement. We'll have to wait and see. |
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AronSchatz Unregistered |
#37205 Posted on: 06/09/2002 11:24 PM
You must take into account that the FPU is better AND that the entire memory controller is integrated into the CPU. And the entire board is running through hypertransport interconnects which are very fast. |
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MagamiAKO Unregistered |
#37206 Posted on: 06/09/2002 11:31 PM
LOL....Hypertransport isn't going to do anything special to limited AGP and PCI bandwidth, I don't care what anyone says 
The memory controller is integrated, but that isn't going to get magical performance out of memory that is only made to go at 333Mhz(2.7GB/sec) speeds, it's that simple. It's not 'dual channel' it's not 'dual controller' or anything, the clawhammer was slated to have a single controller(sledge has two, which effectively doubles the bandwidth). I still really question these. While tecchannel is a pretty reputable site, money can mean a lot of talking for some people. We will find out, though. Along with the rumors of note: 64 bit modes will be disabled in consumer versions of the chip(leaving 32 bit on the next gen K8 Athlons, and the Opterons with the 32/64). heh. |
