Fortunately, today’s announcement and release of the AMD Opteron 100-, 200-, and 800-series of dual-core processors gives us a much clearer picture of who will be faster (in addition to whose implementation is prettiest, if that matters to you). We have at our disposal Intel’s Pentium Extreme Edition 840, at 3.2GHz, which was previously previewed, AMD’s Athlon 64 FX-55, the current performance champ in a majority of gaming environments, AMD’s Opteron 252, a 2.6GHz equivalent to the FX constrained to registered memory and a 940-pin interface, and the Opteron 875, a production dual-core sample running at 2.2GHz and priced in excess of its weight in gold. It doesn’t have the same residual value but, well, that’s another matter entirely…



Link: Firingsquad