An early AMD "Barcelona" revision gets its first non-simulated benchmark
Earlier today, AMD announced that it successfully demonstrated Barcelona
across the server market. The company did not publically state how fast the
processor was running, the stepping of the processor, the processor thermal
envelope or the eventual ship date.
We had the opportunity to benchmark the AMD Barcelona, native quad-core on
an early stepping. We only had a few minutes to test the chip, but we were
able to run a q