It looks like the purchase of ATI is starting to look like a good peice of business by AMD.
early reports show that the the new R670 gpus are out perfoming Nvidias G92
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/03/nvidia-admits-defeat-g92-vs
and the so called R680 (x2 R670 on the same board) gives the Phenom user on the RD790 chipset the chance to have 6 gpus on the same PC
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/R680_To_Score_20K_In_3DMark06/5325.html
Now this is all well and good but if Phenom is slower than kentsfield in real world apps this will cause AMD a headache. But looking the fisrt barcelona 3dmark 06 bench (the only one i can find) the server chip is not far behind q6600 @2.4ghz and by my reconing its ahead of kentsfield clock for clock in this bench. With the server barcelona (opteron 2350) scoreing 2907 in the cpu score @ 2ghz.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=158051&page=35
now later in this tread posters say that the q6600 scores about 3400 so using simple maths the 2.4 barcelona chip should get about 3500.
can anyone confirm that a Q6600 scores 3400 in 3dmark06 on the cpu score? if so can they post some screens please.
early reports show that the the new R670 gpus are out perfoming Nvidias G92
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/03/nvidia-admits-defeat-g92-vs
and the so called R680 (x2 R670 on the same board) gives the Phenom user on the RD790 chipset the chance to have 6 gpus on the same PC
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/R680_To_Score_20K_In_3DMark06/5325.html
Now this is all well and good but if Phenom is slower than kentsfield in real world apps this will cause AMD a headache. But looking the fisrt barcelona 3dmark 06 bench (the only one i can find) the server chip is not far behind q6600 @2.4ghz and by my reconing its ahead of kentsfield clock for clock in this bench. With the server barcelona (opteron 2350) scoreing 2907 in the cpu score @ 2ghz.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=158051&page=35
now later in this tread posters say that the q6600 scores about 3400 so using simple maths the 2.4 barcelona chip should get about 3500.
can anyone confirm that a Q6600 scores 3400 in 3dmark06 on the cpu score? if so can they post some screens please.