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2005-03-13
First dual core AMD Athlon 64 benchmark
People at Italian web site Hardware Upgrade are the first to publish benchmarks of the dual core AMD Athlon 64 processor. They used an engineering sample running at 2.4 GHz and with 1 MiB of L2 cache. The system had 512 MiB of memory. Here are the results from the Cinebench (in seconds, lower is better):
What can I say. Very cool for only 2.4 GHz and I can't wait to see the final hardware in action. I wonder what will be the price for these CPUs...
