AMD Socket AM2 CPUs three to five per cent faster
Fudo over at The Inq put a news post up today saying that the only way to see any memory performance increase on the AMD Socket AM2 platforms is to run at least 800MHz DDR2. If the Intel Conroe numbers showing that they were 40% faster than AMD at IDF are correct and real then AMD needs to have an ace hidden some place as 3%-5% on the memory wont catch Conroe.
We have seen many AM2 socket CPUs. Most of them are running at 2.4GHZ and are showcased with DDR 2 800 memory. That is the only way to show any kind of performance difference from the DDR 400 based existing 939 CPUs. The guys that ran some benchmarks on those machines confirmed that you can expect three to five per cent performance increase and that is about it. AMD claims that those engineering samples are the final revision so you should not expect more of the performance incensement. The existing engineering samples are running at 2.4 GHz but they might end up even faster at the launch date.
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