First REAL Barcelona Benchmarks

[jwlangs]

It's sort of like "We have a product you'll love; it will knock your socks off, but we're not going to spoil the surprise". Ya, not a good tactic when losing more than 500 million dollars a quarter in cash, but that's the route they hopefully have taken (may have been necessary just to avoid giving info to the Penryn team at Intel - Intel's faced with the decision of launching Penryn immediately after Barcy, or seeing how the benches go and then being forced to hold off until later Penyrn steppings).

Considering how fast Intel can get product in the channel, I have to agree that this is the most sensible reason for all the silence. If legit Barcelona benchmarks were available too far before product launch, Intel's got faster product that they're just sitting on and could get out to retail in a damn hurry. AMD will make some scratch off Barcelona, but they could make that much more for every extra day that Barcelona is a legitimately competitive cpu, which I really feel will be alot tougher with a full pynryn product profile to compete against. So, the longer pynryn stays off the market, the more AMD stands to profit from Barcelona's launch.

 

[function9]

But how can they build hype withoug hyping up their product? If that's what they're trying to do I'd have to say they're going about it wrong, as I have no sense of hype regarding their products - just questions and a sense of bewilderment.

By not releasing any hard data or facts about their products all that leads to is speculation. Look at the R600, there was virtually nothing about it out other than the features of the architecture. So many thought it was going to be the second coming. While it isn't horrible and drivers seem to keep improving performance, it's nothing that people made it out to be prior to launch.

 

[ches111]

By not releasing any hard data or facts about their products all that leads to is speculation. Look at the R600, there was virtually nothing about it out other than the features of the architecture. So many thought it was going to be the second coming. While it isn't horrible and drivers seem to keep improving performance, it's nothing that people made it out to be prior to launch.

Function,

I think that hurt them... Here they allow the rumors to persist and then it does not live up to the "Silence/rumors"

Not healthy...

Not to mention that if Barcy is similar then from now on for everyone silence will mean "not ready to compete".

 

[yomamafor1]

You're LYING. PERIOD! I never had an opinion except to say that they must have really improved their prefetching or were using a form of RHT.

STOP LYING. Show everyone this. If you don't YOU'RE LYING FOR FUD.

wow.. NM.. you hit him where hurts the most.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

actually BM, there are tons of us who will agree with NM. just like an old chinese proverb, "nothing will appear out of nowhere".

 

[NMDante]

wow.. NM.. you hit him where hurts the most.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

actually BM, there are tons of us who will agree with NM. just like an old chinese proverb, "nothing will appear out of nowhere".

I wasn't trying to prove anything, just stating what was written before.
I really don't have anything against anyone, unless they are trying to push something as facts, when it is nothing but speculation or FUD. I've been called out a few times, and gladly linked my source (which was not Fudzilla or the Inq).

It's just funny to be called a liar. Especially by BM. Ah, but what are you gonna do?