11.09.2007 15:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

AMD: Say Hello to Barcelona

When Intel released Core architecture, it massively impacted AMD due to the important performance gap it created with the CPU offer from the Texan founder. AMD at that time had no CPU ready to be launched to fire back to Core Duo and Core 2 Duo mobile, desktop and Core Xeon server CPUs, so it strongly decreased prices of its mobile and desktop CPU. It took 18 months to AMD following the first Core CPU introduction to release the first native Quad Core CPU, known as Barcelona, and aiming to compete with Core architecture-based Xeon. Quad Core Xeon are in fact two Dual Core Xeon on the same die, communicating via the system bus, the same way that two Dual Core CPUs installed on two independent sockets on the same motherboard. To that extend, Barcelona is more advanced with its interconnected Quad Core technology. But does it translate performance wise? Anandtech could test a Barcelona clocked at 2.0GHz,

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