These two are not comparable however as Intel's 65nm process then already had six months of maturity from production of Presler in Q4 05. Some people have overestimated Intel's volume and clock ramp because they were spoiled by the launch of C2D back in 2006.
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This plus Intel's much slower ramp gives AMD some breathing room until Intel catches up in Q2 08. Intel's yields, in contrast, on its brand new 45nm process will take a couple of quarters to reach maturity. Today, in spite of the low clocks, AMD's 65nm process for K10 has excellent yields. K8 launched with a painfully low yielding 130nm SOI process (only about half the yield of AMD's K7 bulk 130nm process) and this new process took a year to reach yield maturity. Another difference though is process yield. Today, there are several chipsets and dozens of boards that can handle K10 with nothing more than a BIOS update. When K8 launched there was exactly one chipset (AMD's) that supported it and compatible motherboards only arrived very slowly. However, nothing else is really the same. So, AMD's K10 launch is a bit worse than Opteron in 2003. Given the same speed ratios, Barcelona would need to be at 2.2Ghz. One difference is that K10 is slower at launch than Opteron was in 2003. There are some similarities but some important differences as well. I've already seen analogies drawn with 2003 when AMD first launched K8. In Q1 08, with 3.0Ghz, AMD should be able to match up to 3.33Ghz. This means that in Q4, Intel will still have two clock speeds, 3.0 and 3.16Ghz which are faster. Since AMD has promised 2.5Ghz in Q4 this should allow AMD to match the 2.83Ghz Penryn. And, since Penryn is only showing a 5% increase in speed, this should make a 2.0Ghz Barcelona equal to a 2.2Ghz Penryn.
A 2.0Ghz Barcelona seems to be equal to a 2.33Ghz Clovertown. Atom 230 VS.K10 can be summed up pretty simply based on the benchmarks in reviews that popped up like mushrooms just after midnight Monday, September 10th as AMD's NDA expired. GeForce GTX 285 and Core i7-920 OC 2.88GHz 3DMark.
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