Advanced Micro Devices' chief technical officer tipped the performance of the 64-bit Hammer chip at the Microprocessor Forum on Tuesday. "The Opteron architecture offers industry-leading performance for enterprise-class servers but at the same time it's a sweet little processor for the desktop," said Fred Weber, AMD's vice-president of engineering for the Computational Products Group. Read more...

2GHz Opteron 1202 (CPU)/1170 (FPU)
Pentium 4 2. 8 GHz: 970 (CPU)/1010 (FPU)
Itanium 2 1 GHz: 810 (CPU)/1356 (FPU)

He did not formally disclose whether the chip was a "Clawhammer" or "Sledgehammer" chip. For more info warp 2 ... ExtremeTech.