Athlon 64: ClawHammer and Opteron!
 

Well, after years of waiting, it seems that AMD just released the nuclear bomb on the CPU industry.

http://www.appstate.edu/~bt52438/clawhammer.jpg

Yes, that's a single-CPU Athlon 64 ClawHammer running at 2.1 GHz, OC'ed from 2.0 GHz. He's using a Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB). 24,000+ 3d Marks with a 2.1 GHz processor.

http://www.tbreak.com/forums/showthr...threadid=19317

There's the starting thread. He posts more benchmark tests, including his Quake 3 FPS score of over 500 frames per second.

Another company has benchmarked the Athlon 64 Opteron against dual Xeons, Pentium 4's, and Athlon XP 3200+. The SINGLE-CPU Opteron at 2.0 Ghz beat out the DUAL Xeons at 3.06 GHz EACH. http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1856&p=2

AMD has long since needed a revolution, and it seems that it's coming on September 23rd with the Athlon 64 release.

EDIT: Another link: http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=426&pid=1509

-Lasereth

SWEET MOTHER OF JESUS that is sweet!

amd is gonna own intel now!

i know the price will be a lot, but that sure is a hell of a lot of juice (and i dont have to hear the mac ads where they say that the g4 or g5 or whatever is the fastest computer)

holly jebus

AMD rules!!
I hope these fuckers aren't too expensive because I plan on upgrading soon.....

Hopefully the prices will be pretty reasonable when i build my next computer next spring.

The current Opteron that's out right now is $800. :) They'll definitely go down steadily as the Pentium 5's and late ClawHammers arrive, however. As usual, you gotta pay to kick ass. Hopefully they'll get one down to $200 or so. The lower-end Opterons (1.4 GHz) are about $200 right now, so maybe we can expect better prices in a month or two.

-Lasereth

Yea, the lower end Opterons are no slouch though.

I can't wait until the high end ones come down in price.

Best.
CPU.
Ever.

Haha, always wanted to do that.

That's definitely going to be my next computer! Now ... to get a job that can give me enough money to buy me one of those :)

Wow! That is impressive. I wonder if any optimizing was done with the software to get those scores.

Nope, the thread mentions that the resolution was set at the default 1024x768 with all options at default.

-Lasereth

Quick question(s): I was under the assumption that users needed a new OS to run with a 64-bit chip. THe jpeg from above looks like he/she is running XP. How is this possible? Or is what I heard about current OS's not being able to handle 64-bit chips incorrect? Just wondering

Yes, those new AMD CPUs do indeed seem to be ripping shit up. But those prices make baby jeebus cry :(.


MahlerIsGod: The Athlon 64 and Opteron are designed to do both 32 and 64-bit. It's quite spiffy.

What Rotten said. The scores are rumored to go up 30% when the 64-bit Windows debuts.

-Lasereth

I think WinXP 64 is in alpha right now but I have a feeling that the above is straight Windows XP (32-bit).

I wish i could afford it, but I think my next purchase is going to have to be a barton and an epox nf2 board (birthday present on a budget :()