Ace’s Hardware reports Opteron Unreal Tournament benchmarks! I think every gamer is wondering about the Opteron’s performance in a non-server environment. While these tests might be premature, they do give us a look at the chips potential.

"….. With the data I have right now, I think we can speculate that an Athlon 64 1.8 GHz will perform more or less like a 2.8 GHz – 3 GHz Pentium 4. The Opteron 1.8 GHz seems to be at the level of a 2.7-2.8 GHz P4, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the Athlon 64 1.8 GHz performs better than the Opteron 1.8 GHz we tested today. The reasoning is that the Athlon 64 will not have the ECC performance penalty and will most likely have access to DDR400. The lower latency of DDR400 compared to DDR333 ECC is much more important than the small bandwidth advantage the Opteron might have. Lower latency will help with each L2-cache miss, more bandwidth will only help if there are so many L2-cache misses that bandwidth becomes a bottleneck. In other words, lower latency (DDR400, Athlon 64) will always improve performance, more bandwidth (Opteron) will only improve performance, if you are running out of it. With a 1 MB L2-cache, that is less likely."

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No tags for this poststyle="max-width:300px" />>Ace’s Hardware reports Opteron Unreal Tournament benchmarks! I think every gamer is wondering about the Opteron’s performance in a non-server environment. While these tests might be premature, they do give us a look at the chips potential.

"….. With the data I have right now, I think we can speculate that an Athlon 64 1.8 GHz will perform more or less like a 2.8 GHz – 3 GHz Pentium 4. The Opteron 1.8 GHz seems to be at the level of a 2.7-2.8 GHz P4, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the Athlon 64 1.8 GHz performs better than the Opteron 1.8 GHz we tested today. The reasoning is that the Athlon 64 will not have the ECC performance penalty and will most likely have access to DDR400. The lower latency of DDR400 compared to DDR333 ECC is much more important than the small bandwidth advantage the Opteron might have. Lower latency will help with each L2-cache miss, more bandwidth will only help if there are so many L2-cache misses that bandwidth becomes a bottleneck. In other words, lower latency (DDR400, Athlon 64) will always improve performance, more bandwidth (Opteron) will only improve performance, if you are running out of it. With a 1 MB L2-cache, that is less likely."

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