First Benchmarks Of AMD's 64-Bit Processor "Hammer"

tecCHANNEL Exclusive: Processor Lives Up To Expectations

MUNICH, GERMANY --(INTERNET WIRE)--Jun 7, 2002 -- The performance of AMD's "Hammer", the first 64-bit processor for desktop use, has been tested exclusively by tecCHANNEL.DE, the Web-zine for IT professionals. Conclusion: the first "Hammer" blow is promising, the results of the prototype are impressive. While configurating and testing the system any problems whatsoever did occur. The current hardware was running absolutely stable.

AMD already published details of its "Hammer" processors at the end of 2001 but performance results have not been given until now. The processors shall be launched as successors of the Athlon series for desktop use (code name Clawhammer) as well as in a server version (product name Opteron). At first Clawhammer shall be launched at the end of 2002. Apart from AMD (8000 series) also Ali (M1687), NVIDIA (nForce2), SiS (755) and VIA (K8 series) are producing chipsets for the "Hammer" CPU.

It seems AMD has been very conservative in regard to its first "Hammer" processors at 800 MHz clock rate. This week at Computex, Asia's biggest IT trade show, rumour had it that the clock rate will be 1.6 GHz at the launch of the processors at the end of 2002, according to reports by tecCHANNEL.DE. That means the performance of the Clawhammer processors will be on the same level as the performance of Intel's Pentium 4 at 3.4 GHz -- which will not be available at the end of 2002. If everything is running according to plan AMD will deal a severe "Hammer" blow to Intel.

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