Intel’s 6-core Dunnington launch and Intel’s capability to scale its Core micro-architecture have been impressive, even if it is somewhat obvious that the technology is nearing its limits. Power consumption levels on the high-end are reaching questionable levels again. It is where Dunnington is most impressive at first sight, but most vulnerable to AMD’s attacks. And besides its high power consumption, AMD claims that the 6-core does not scale very efficiently in terms in performance and that the 45 nm AMD quad-core will be able to surpass Dunnington in speed and power efficiency by the end of this year.
AMD rips Intel’s Dunnington
September 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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1 Lost Drive Blog » AMD rips Intel’s Dunnington // Sep 19, 2008 at 10:42 am
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2 AMD Talk » AMD rips Intel’s Dunnington // Sep 19, 2008 at 11:31 am
[...] Broken5hift wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIt is where Dunnington is most impressive at first sight, but most vulnerable to AMD’s attacks. And besides its high power consumption, AMD claims that the 6-core does not scale very efficiently in terms in performance and that the 45 … [...]