Author: K. Burcham
Date: 09:13:15 07/03/05
We know the actual switching for chess kns is in the transistor count. Of course I am talking all things equal when making a comparison, optimizing, bottlenecks, latency, cache size, etc... I have been curious about the transistor count of the new dual core processors. I was not sure how many transistors were in each core. In the X2 4800 dual core we can see that each core has 115 million transistors. This would be about the same as the FX-57 transistor count. This would explain why they are about the same in the bench tests with most software. Then with multi-processing software we can see a big jump in the bench tests with the dual core. You can also see here how Intel has trouble getting the full benefits of the transistor switching of the 169 million. The 3.73 Intel is not beating the FX-57 at with 114 million transistors. Transistor Count: Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2 x 2400mhz core frequency 233 million AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 2800MHz San Diego 114 million 90nm SGOI @ AMD, Fab 30, Dresden AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2600MHz Clawhammer 105.9 million 130nm SOI @ AMD, Fab 30, Dresden Pentium 4 XE 3.73 GHz 169 million 90nm
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