AMD-64 large memory... -- 4-way v. 2-way dual-core ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:25 -0700, Andrew Shewmaker wrote:
> Up until a month ago I had heard the same (that the dual cores would be 
> considerably slower), but recently there have been people claiming that 
> AMD's dual cores will becoming out at 2.4 GHz.

Considering they are coming out Q3, after AMD has released it's planned
2.8 and 3.0GHz single core parts, 2.4GHz sounds normal for dual-core.

In a nutshell, due to sheer transistor count, something has got to give
-- cache, clock, etc... for thermal considerations, compared to single
core.


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