More joy for the Intel camper!!!

The review of the latest server side processors :Xenon (the new Woodcrest core based 5100 series) and Opteron ("Italy") provides every reason for the intel camper to rejoice.

Alas! What more reason do I need to celebrate than that Intel has "regained the throne for the best procesor(s)"

The Core 2 duo architecture is doing wonders for Intel...no hyperbole this.Lower power consumption ,more instructions per cycle . everything that one would want from a processor upgrade. The new Xenon's based on this are named Woodcrest as opposed to the previous version of the Xenon codenamed Dempsey. These will use Socket 771 (also called Socket J).

Technical specs apart ,the new Xenon's continue Intel's legacy of number crunching superiority in Video and Audio processing applications and infact gains from the single cycle SSE. The only downside about this continuing legacy being that the memory throughput cannot match that of AMD 's architecture.

But come to power consumption and behold the magic. The Xenon shows its main advantage under load and races ahead of all competition leaving the Opteron fuming (literally...and AMD along with it,probably!!!) behind.It consumes only about half of what the Opteron does!!!

The only thing strange with this release is that it only one month since Intel has released the "Dempsey" processors. the explanation might be that the Woodcrest might have been ready ahead of schedule and Intel thought it would be a safe bet to release it ahead of the schedule release of the newer Opteron X4 which is supposed to have an L3 cache.

As with the Core 2 Duo , the only thing that can be said about the new Xenon's is that Intel has come up with a winner again and AMD has a real challenge especially that there are the Quad core Xenon's(the mighty Clovertown) yet to be released.

All that I'll be doing though is keep my fingers crossed waiting for the Clovertown(I'm already drooling over the thought of the quad-cores ,including the for-the-desktop Kentsfield) and also keep this blog updated...

Till the Clovertown walks the ramp...

When I'll have no time but to re-read the specs and the performance...

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