nForce3 Pro and Opteron 144 Benchmarks
Shorty
Manchester, UK Icrontian
Amdmb.com has published a review of the new NVIDIA nForce3 Professional chipset coupled with the AMD Opteron 144 processor running at 1.8 GHz. Both workstation and desktop configurations are compared to the latest from Intel, their 3.2 GHz P4.
Source : AMDmb
In our short round of tests aimed at the desktop market, we saw that the Opteron 144 processor was doing well, but perhaps not what we were looking for quite yet. The memory scores on the synthetic benchmarks show the potential for the AMD64 architecture, especially in DDR400. While the results are positive, with the Opteron winning many of the benchmarks even at a speed of only 1.8 GHz, there are a couple of places they need to improve on before the desktop CPU launch on September 23rd.
Source : AMDmb
0
Comments
I think the situation is similar to when the P4 was first introduced: software isn't optimized. Give it 12-18 months (or less) and I think we'll see a much different story. Look at what the P4 did once SSE2 had been written into programs and the clockspeed jumped to well over 2GHz?
When a 64-bit Windows is ready and popular software packages/programs have been written to leverage AMD64 processors is when I'll be concerned, if its shown that AMD64 is not laying some serious smack down on the Intel chips.
Now, concern isn't the same thing as interest. I'm interested in all the benchmarks, but seeing the Opteron lagging doesn't concern me. Unless Yamhill makes a debut soon, I don't think AMD will have much to worry about once the 64-bit O/Ss and programs are widely available.
I'd love to see an AMD64-optimized F@H core running on a 2.4GHz or faster Opteron/Athlon64.
It's ~40% slower than the AMD8000, and the only workstation chipset available for the Opteron. nVidia's seriously tarnishing the Opteron's image (Which IS better than a 3.2 p4/3200+ at 2GHz) by being the only chipset for the desktop, and being so damn slower than the 2xx competition. All people see is the nForce3 Pro and say "Wow, that's slow. Why should I buy that?" Meanwhile the AMD8000 is stomping p4s flat.
Come the hell on nVidia.
MSI K8T Master2-FAR Product Page
And the Tyan AMD8000 Based K8W
/edit
what is the deal with passive northbnridge cooling...werent we over thisphase already???
TheSMJ: Passive cooling goooood. Passive cooling means bigger heatsinks. If you screw a fan onto them, they'll outperform the dinky active northbridge coolers (like the one on the NF7-S, for example...)
That Tyan board looks nice... wonder how much it'll be early next year...
**Shipping Sep 10th**
Also the Tyan mobo has 13 mounting points. That's one LARGE motherboard. It wont fit in our standard (or large) ATX cases
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,24330,3342609,00.html