AMD's released their new Shanghai chip... that's the replacement to Barcelona and the first chips pressed at 45nm. Apparently performance is not bad and power usage is low as usual. Ars is happy as this seems to put AMD back in the game. Desktop versions due in the first quarter of 2009. I just don't know if it'll have the bang to beat core i7.
overview/review
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... debut.html
more info and some database benchmarks
http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3456
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| Quote: As you've seen, AMD is still competitive with Intel's 3.0 GHz Harpertown in the database workloads that we've shown here. We were quite surprised that Shanghai was able to meet and, in some cases, pass Harpertown at various workload levels in some of the benchmarks. Obviously, when it comes to power, AMD is still leading this space by a significant margin. FB-DIMMs obliterate any power efficiency in Intel's processors, especially when you have eight (or more in some cases) of them present in a server. | |
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*edit* fixed a link *edit*