AMD's 3GHz K10 to break 30,000 3DMark06 (Inq)

papu

K10: meet (Beverly) Krusher to the 10th degree

By Theo Valich:

When clocked at 3.0 GHz and equipped with two overclocked HD2900XT cards in CrossFire, Agena FX or single-core Barcelona smashed an index of 30,000 3DMarks 06.
Yes, you’ve read it right - the barrier of 30,000 was passed to, barely, 30.031.
We know that there are different systems floating around, and we have no doubt that leaks will start appearing after this article goes live. Knowing what was the overclock of Kentsfield processor, Intel Yorkfield has quite a big job to do. One thing is clear, though. Intel needs Nehalem, and it needs it badly.

To be clear with you, dear readers, two HD2900XT cards were overclocked to 830MHz for the core and 900MHz for the memory, but ominous Catalyst 7.7 drivers were used.

When running at 2.5GHz, the 3DMark06 score ended at 23.768, so we were thrilled to see such a good score coming from two 512MB cards. This showed the clear potential of this four core processor marchitecture, but the helter skelter ride happened after we overclocked the processor to 3.0GHz.

The particular processor was none other than a single socket Barcelona or Agena FX, call it what you will. The reference motherboard containing RD790 chipset packed two HD 2900XT cards, and the memory installed was Corsair’s Dominator PC2-9136C5D, or the same ones we have been using ever since they came out. There was a Raptor hard drive, and that was about that. OCZ will like the fact that PP&C Quaddie CrossFire PSU was installed in the system.

Windows Me II (Vista) Ultimate was installed as the operating system of choice. For some odd reason, the 32-bit version was installed in a system with 4GB of memory, needless to say the system detected 3.24GB, and benchmarketing commenced.

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Finally some good news for AMD

is it phenomenal?

conzy

papu wrote:

is it phenomenal?

I see what you did there........

Stephen

inquirer hacks wrote:

Windows Me II (Vista) Ultimate was installed as the operating system of choice

Such utter, utter twats.

papu

shows on an os where you get bunged about 600 points it still got 30.000

Anti

It would be nice to switch back to AMD, I dont like putting money into intels pockets

Spear

Anti wrote:

It would be nice to switch back to AMD, I dont like putting money into intels pockets

Combined with this article
http://www.dailytech.com/Quick+and+Dirty+QuadCore+Penryn+Benchmarks/article8585.htm
It looks like it'll be a return to the days of the first Athlon 64s and P4s, with the AMD being faster per clock, but with the Core 2s scaling to higher frequencies.

Stephen

Competition is great for us, the consumers

conzy

Anti wrote:

It would be nice to switch back to AMD, I dont like putting money into intels pockets

They only employ half the country .....

Shane O' Malley

Might want to look at this article. He seems to poke holes in AMD over those tests.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?m=200707

generalmiaow

Stephen wrote:

Such utter, utter twats.

the joke or the choice of OS? I thought the former was kind of funny till it googled as unoriginal

Dorsanty

+1 for wanting to make my next proc an AMD. Please god let those Phenom procs be worth some cash.

Once Phenom is out of course Intel will be very close to releasing 45nm procs while AMD has only just transitioned to 65nm. And Intel is also transitioning to on chip memory controller (where'd they get that idea?).

Still I'll stick with AMD if they can keep up. Not as if Intel need any more cash. But it's hard to buy AMD if Intel are stealing all their thunder and beating them on the benchmarks.

Stephen

generalmiaow: the joke.