Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: AMD, K10, architecture
Categories: Hardware
Conclusion
It’s hard not to be a little excited by this tour of the latest AMD architecture. With Barcelona, AMD has the opportunity to equal Intel’s architecture. In that light, it’s a little regrettable that with such an advance AMD once again has been overtaken by its competitor, or that it didn’t make bigger improvements to its architecture, as Intel managed to do. At the very least this conservativeness shows us that we will be dealing with a well balanced architecture.
There are only two really big unknown left now. The first is whether these improvements will prove sufficient to compete with Intel’s Peryn, which now has rumours circulating about some very encouraging performance?
And what about the frequency? As it is, this is still a theoretical point of view, the two architectures are very close, AMD will have to follow Intel like its shadow if they don’t wish to left behind in the performance race.
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Why is the wording under the pictures in French?
It looks like the editor either hasn't been doing his/her job properly or is not a fluent English speaker. There are at least half a dozen spelling errors in this article, and the grammar is somewhat less than perfect!
Apart from that, an interesting read.
Re: "AMD K10: The Architecture of the Revival?"
Article compares apples and oranges. :-(
i.e. It would be fair to compare the memory architecture of Coppermine vs. Thunderbird, as an example of where AMD /romped/ ahead.
Go back to Tomshardwares own archives and compare those memory architectures.
Or as another example, compare Katmai with the original Slot-A Athlon K75.
Where's the definitive great chart of all (x86) CPUs gone? Where are the archives?? What happened to the once-great tomshardware.com????
Cheers!
Fragz.