X86 Secrets have thrown up their comparison of the Opteron 140/146 against an Athlon XP 3200+ engineering sample and a Pentium 4 3.2GHz engineering sample! as the site in French here's a translation by Google.
In short, all this small world being more or less available and the tests of our French fellow-members being long in coming, we thus got Asus SK8N equipped with the nForce3 as two Opterons: model 140, given rhythm to 1.4 Ghz which is the first processor x86-64 in term of accessible price and one 146, given rhythm with 2 Ghz, and which enables us to extrapolate without too much problem the performances of Athlon 64. In this test, we will see initially a rapid summary of the technologies included in Opteron before interesting us in the chipset nForce3 Pro 150 of nVidia then to the SK8N of Asus. We will continue then by comparative of architecture with 1.4 Ghz before seeing more in detail the performances of Opterons vis-a-vis Pentiums 4 of INTEL. It should be noted that this test is only one rapid seen of a Opteron platform and not a thorough test of the processor. The review of detail (thorough) of K8 of AMD should not however delay in a future article. Let us proceed.
Opteron 140-146, nForce 3 & SK8N
In short, all this small world being more or less available and the tests of our French fellow-members being long in coming, we thus got Asus SK8N equipped with the nForce3 as two Opterons: model 140, given rhythm to 1.4 Ghz which is the first processor x86-64 in term of accessible price and one 146, given rhythm with 2 Ghz, and which enables us to extrapolate without too much problem the performances of Athlon 64. In this test, we will see initially a rapid summary of the technologies included in Opteron before interesting us in the chipset nForce3 Pro 150 of nVidia then to the SK8N of Asus. We will continue then by comparative of architecture with 1.4 Ghz before seeing more in detail the performances of Opterons vis-a-vis Pentiums 4 of INTEL. It should be noted that this test is only one rapid seen of a Opteron platform and not a thorough test of the processor. The review of detail (thorough) of K8 of AMD should not however delay in a future article. Let us proceed.
Opteron 140-146, nForce 3 & SK8N
