Where are the 2GHZ opteron

[Mephistopheles]

I also previously imagined Itanium 3 was Madison

You're not the only one.

Yes, the Inquirer... always a little confusing to read anyway...

Besides, who knows what goes on inside the heads of those marketing people?... Why is Itanium 2 a "2"?...

 

[shadus]

Actually the "c" series was just another nail, the 3.06 was a good bit better also.

Shadus

 

[eden]

Well, Itanium 2 WAS a significant jump in performance over the original. We're talking massive.

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[juin]

Some corporation have say they have see a 10X increase in speed in molecular dynamics.(or it was something else) compare to a EV 68 1GHZ but setup for EV68 was much slower much less ram slower ram less HDD slower 7200 SCsi vs 15000 and others.

To get a version for IA64 will be hard.

I dont like french test

 

[Schmide]

If <A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10292" target="_new">this</A> has an effect on anything, an Opteron 2.0 would approximately go from a (1200/1150) to a (*1.34) = (1608/1150) processor.

But we would never speculate on any spec whether it integer or float.

Dichromatic for your viewing plesure...

 

[Mephistopheles]

Inquirer is always a little suspicious...

...besides, come on, 375% increase? What the hell is that? That would put a 1000-SPEC_FP-scoring Opteron at 4750 points, and that is just plain ridiculous. Quite simply. This doesn't make me a believer. At all.

 

[eden]

However the news they reported of the compiler seems quite true. This is, I guess, what Opteron also needs, like Itanium, excellent compilers to perform. Clearly it needs good coding from good credible sources, and a 34% boost possible in Integer is nothing to laugh at. Sincerly, I hope it jumps boats to the Athlon 64 as well. AMD seems committed in this respect, to delivering better compilers and optimization as we can see. I do hope it works, because without it, as I said before, I have little hope in its performance (A64).

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[Mephistopheles]

the news they reported of the compiler seems quite true.

On what grounds, exactly? The Inquirer is not that much of a reliable source of information... I wish it were true too, of course.

Anyway, that would still put the top-of-the-line 1.8Ghz Opteron considerably behind the 1.3Ghz (the cheapest) Itanium 2 in floating point/SPEC... if it's right.

 

[juin]

yes but the improvement is made vs wich compiler we dont know to say they are outrun intel compiler by 34% is not possible as ICC give a edge of 10% increase in spec vs others compiler to say a little group in portland can increase score of opteron by 30% will close to miracle.

But a 100int point an 50 FPU point increase maybe real (even surly is they can produce good code for SSE-2) and easy to use.If at lease they can produce a 64 bit mode as fast as 32 bit it will be gain for AMD.

I dont like french test<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by juin on 07/03/03 11:56 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[dhlucke]

What part confused you?

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[eden]

Forget it DH, he ain't gonna even try to come back for this.

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