AMD apparently released prices fo its new barcelona series to partners and distributors..

http://www.geeks-corner.com/blog/index.php/barcelona-prices/



Hope prices correspond to performance..

This post has been edited by intune: Sep 10 2007, 06:15 PM

Barcelona meant for server market so prices bit steep..maybe we all shud wait for Phenom in November for the desktop series.. maybe prices will be on our side then..

FOr now .. luv my quad..

Here i some breaking SPEC numbers leaked and sourced from ZDNet:





ZDnet - "Here are the SPECfp_rate2006 peak numbers which are used for the niche HPC market. The leaked Barcelona 2.0 numbers are based on AMD's slide that claims a 35% advantage over Intel's 5345 as of 8/28/2007 (this is the date that these slides were generated). The numbers below show updated September numbers for Intel but it is possible that AMD has newer and better scores than the ones submitted on 8/20/2007"

Comments at ZDnet Blog -

"The 4-processor SPECint_rate2006 slides you posted are actually GOOD news for AMD !

They show the Opteron 8350 platform ($1004/proc) being faster, or as fast as, the Xeon L7345 and E7320 platforms (respectively $2301 and $1177/proc) ! Then, the Xeon X7340 score is indeed higher than the Opteron 8350, but this Xeon costs twice as much: $1980. (It would have been interesting to see the score for the intermediate Xeon X7330 by the way.)

Everybody is so focused on absolute performance, but, in the end, all what matters is how much bang you get for your buck. So unless you stricly buy the highest-end processors ($2000+ proc representing the top 20% of the 4P market), these slides prove that Barcelona is faster & cheaper for everything else (the remaining 80% of the 4P market) ! "


TS Comments - I wonder how AMD Opterons will perform clock to clock performance with Intel Xeons Tigerton.. Interesting developements indeed. I guess The war on the desktop market will become more interesting then this when Phenom comes out in November.. Hopefully the fight between Intel and AMD will always produce one winner..which is 'us' the consumer.

This post has been edited by intune: Sep 8 2007, 04:03 PM