This just in from Ilya Gavrichenkov at Xbitlabs.com, who managed to get hands on an engineering sample of the AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor. They couldn?t help testing it and this article discusses the major features and benchmarks results for this processor.
As AMD prepares a new Athlon 64 processor to enter the desktop CPUs market. And even though they have been delaying this processor a number of times, so that the actual launch date has been postponed for almost a year since the initial schedule, the new architecture to be introduced in this CPU keeps exciting the public quite a lot. Take for instance the fact that Intel Company started paying quite a bit of attention in its confidential documents to the competitiveness of their Pentium 4 processor family against the upcoming AMD Athlon 64.
But it is still pretty unclear, if the architectural advantages of the upcoming Athlon 64 will allow it to outperform Pentium 4 working at unbelievably high clock frequencies today. All information about the alleged performance of Athlon 64, which had leaked into the web so far, was either very poor and insufficient for any more or less definite conclusions, or concerned AMD Athlon 64 processors working at very low clock frequencies.
Luckily, today we will be able to partially make up for this drawback.
We managed to get hold of a much newer AMD Athlon 64 pre-production sample, which we are going to test very thoroughly today. We would like to remind you that officially, the launch of AMD Athlon 64 is scheduled for September this year. In this article we are not going to go into details concerning the Athlon 64 architecture, that is why we suggest that you check our article called ?A Glance at the Future: AMD Hammer Processors and x86-64 Technology?, before you continue reading this review.
AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview @ Xbitlabs.com
But it is still pretty unclear, if the architectural advantages of the upcoming Athlon 64 will allow it to outperform Pentium 4 working at unbelievably high clock frequencies today. All information about the alleged performance of Athlon 64, which had leaked into the web so far, was either very poor and insufficient for any more or less definite conclusions, or concerned AMD Athlon 64 processors working at very low clock frequencies.
Luckily, today we will be able to partially make up for this drawback.
We managed to get hold of a much newer AMD Athlon 64 pre-production sample, which we are going to test very thoroughly today. We would like to remind you that officially, the launch of AMD Athlon 64 is scheduled for September this year. In this article we are not going to go into details concerning the Athlon 64 architecture, that is why we suggest that you check our article called ?A Glance at the Future: AMD Hammer Processors and x86-64 Technology?, before you continue reading this review.
AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview @ Xbitlabs.com
