AMD reveals hand: 3.0GHz Barcelona shown

Robert Hallock 26 Jul, 2007 at 1:37pm ET Article published in Tech

It’s a grand day for AMD fans everywhere, friends. AMD’s analyst day is currently going on, and the boys in green brought a 3GHz Barcelona with three 2900XTs in a “Tri-Fire” configuration to the party. This is significant because, up until now, the only demonstrated Barcelona silicon has been in the 2.4-2.6GHz range, leaving damn near everyone to believe that this was all their new silicon was capable of pushing. There were stories of bad yields, poor process and all sorts of nasty things, but here we are, a quad-core chip from AMD at the 3GHz on a stock cooler.

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27 Jul 2007 ~ 7:22am Winga Cue Sledge in 5...4...3...2...

That is one serious piece of hardware.
No wonder why they can run this baby with a stock cooler. There's enough fans on the side panel to blow the case over
27 Jul 2007 ~ 4:13pm muddocktor Where are the benchmarks on this setup? So what if it can run at 3 GHZ; I want to know how many chips they went through to find the "golden processor" that could run that fast without having to resort to drastic vcore's or exotic cooling. I'm afraid my patience with all the mouthing that AMD has done the last 6-7 months without proving their product by at least getting some working ES chips out to the big overclockers and benchmarkers has worn thin. AMD has been talking a good line but they haven't backed anything up with proof that their "Barceloney" processor is sooooo much better than Intel's "glued together" quad technology.:rolleyes2

My advice to AMD is as follows: Put up or STFU!:bigggrin:
27 Jul 2007 ~ 4:39pm Sledgehammer70 They are going to put up! but on their terms as many of you I want to see AMD do well, and if they have the right product they just might do that. All the crap on the web has no proof of what AMD's new tech can do, but I am assuming it isn't on par with Intel as you would think AMD would be touting its horn, unless it is pulling the sleeping giant and isn't showing its hand until it is ready.

This could be the right way to do it. Let Intel show their hand so now AMD knows what it has to do. Hmm who says history doesn't do a 360?....
28 Jul 2007 ~ 12:03am Qeldroma

Winga wrote:

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No wonder why they can run this baby with a stock cooler. There's enough fans on the side panel to blow the case over

I think the fans are more for the 3 ATI "tri-fire" boards. I would shudder to pay the power bill for this set-up.
28 Jul 2007 ~ 1:04am Leonardo

Where are the benchmarks on this setup? So what if it can run at 3 GHZ; I want to know how many chips they went through to find the "golden processor" that could run that fast without having to resort to drastic vcore's or exotic cooling.

Yup.

Hey, but it is at least not as depressing as before. Everything you wrote also applies to a couple months ago when the Barcelona they let people peek at was only a 2.4! All things being constant (which is not comforting), at least there is .5GHz improvement. Not much concrete yet, but nonetheless it's still progress.