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Difficult times came to Advanced micro devices (AMD) : on the market for central processors the company uncomfortably feels itself with the arrival of architecture intel core 2 Duo, in the sector of graphic accelerators NVIDIA already several months sell DX 10 compatible accelerators geForce 8800, but R600 still under construction.
To the investors of company was presented the demonstration of the working system on the base of processor barcelona and two (!) video card with GPU r600. This last consume only 200 W of energy, it is possible to only surmise about the energy consumption of entire system. However, about to performance, AMD stated that in the operations with the floating point the processors barcelona, which are prepared for the release in autumn, will exceed most rapid present Intel clovertown (Xeon x5355) by 42%.
Marco Rivas, chapter of microprocessor direction AMD stated that integral superiority of new Opteron over Clovertown will be two-digit (this is in the form of percentages); however, it refused to give more specific numbers.
To supplement the given information was capable the page of project distributed calculations BOINC. In its rating participants the first position according to the index contribution to one processor occupies AMD athlon (tm)/opteron (tm) CPU-model unknown, which, as it is possible to assume, is the engineering model barcelona, established in PC with one of the participants in the project. The occupying second position is xeon x5355 witch lags behind the leader by 26,6%.

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