The speed level advantage is the main AMD weapon to fight with four core processors clovertown: for processors barcelona the size of this advantage had to reach 40%. As reported associate, today AMD representatives gave new statements on this theme.
Thus, it promises, that with work at equal frequencies the processors barcelona will be faster than Clovertown by 50% in floating-point calculations, and 20% in integral tests. In this case frequency of high end models barcelona promises to be the same, as frequency in elder model clovertown - in other words, not below 2.66 GHz (2.7 GHz) and even 3.0 GHz. In principle, such frequency range is already assigned to barcelona processors .
Associates report that barcelona processors at 2.5 GHz frequency will be faster than clovertown processors with 3.0 GHz frequency . In order to pass generation k10 processors , Intel company has to force processors with architecture core to work at frequencies more than 3.2 GHz. In principle, in 45 nm technical process this will become possible.
Associates simultaneously recall that processors socket AM2+ can work in the existing motherboards with socket AM2, but the absence of support hyperTransport 3.0 must not disturb the owners of single-processor systems - all advantages of this system bus is revealed only in servers systems with several processor .
Although AMD representatives promised that desktop processors generation k10 will appear in the third quarter of this year, associate asserts that about the wide accessibility of such processors it will not be possible to speak previous 2008. Major portion of processors generation k10 produced in 2007 will be oriented to server market and segment class quad FX.