Overview

As the last year AMD can offer 2003 parallel with a small event to the IDF, which further opens its doors to guests incidentally only a corner. We also have booth there shortly to give us of an overview of the latest developments at the Intel competitors. Frankly, we were quite curious to see what great innovation around the Athlon 64, the Athlon XP or perhaps a completely different product AMD will have. Finally hammer prototypes and mainboards were shown last year for the first time selected members of the press.

This year was unfortunately not quite so hot ago at AMD. Except for a first mobile Athlon 64 notebook, a speed demonstration Pentium 4 3.06 GHz vs. Athlon XP 3000 +, a 4-way Opteron system, as well as the opportunity, the 64-bit version of Unreal Tournament 2003 short play, had at least no surprises to offer AMD.

Wireless mobile with 64 bit

The shown Mobile Athlon 64 laptop was an early prototype. As a chipset AMD which inserts VIA K8T400, which was actually designed for the desktop market. It will not be this expected to specific chipsets for the notebook market by AMD. Here are the platform partner Ali, nVidia, SiS and VIA helpful with special products for a given hour aside are available. The interesting thing about the shown Athlon 64 laptop was that AMD puts here on DDR266, although supports the storage controller of Athlon 64 DDR333 however. There are about problems in combination, or DDR266 for AMD with its theoretical bandwidth of 2.1 GB / s is sufficient? We could not elicit unfortunately information via clock of mobile Athlon 64 AMD.

As for Intel, including wireless LAN is a major issue at this year’s IDF, it has to of course not take AMD to show their own wireless LAN chipset, the Am1772. True to, we can the motto, which can be Intel, long and better.

How informed us that plans to develop by the way no processor AMD, which is intended solely for the mobile market, as this Intel with the Pentium M and the Centrino has taken brand in attack in the near future.

Opteron and co.

To speed demo Pentium 4 3.06 GHz vs. Athlon XP 3000 + there really isn’t much to say. First tests of Athlon XP 3000 + have shown that it can beat the fastest Pentium 4 in several tests. It is always the question of which test to choose. To lose many unnecessary words, we’ve added a small video 4 3.06 GHz by the race of Pentium with enabled HyperThreading and Athlon XP 3000 + on the basis of the new Barton core. The contents briefly together cool: despite the Intel script, which according to a special pattern to process tasks in Photoshop, Barton was ahead of its competition. There will be a detailed test report of Athlon XP 3000 + with us next week.

AMD has opposite way now officially confirmed us that 3200 + there are still an Athlon XP before the launch of Athlon 64 in September. The clock rate it is silent again and that there will be a faster Athlon XP 3000 +, was already known. On the question of whether it 3200 + will be yet a further Socket A CPU to the XP, you could answer not us against it. Currently, there are also no plans under a single model number 2500 + use the Barton in Athlon XP processors. But also here you wanted to set is not final. As long as the Thoroughbred cores still in sufficient numbers exist, this subject also not up for debate is.

The 4-way Opteron server less by his record as by its deafening noise fell on us, which itself provides a GeForce FX with FX flow in the shade. AMD has built whole ten fan, sufficient to cool the four processors and hard drives. We have allowed us to capture the sounds in a small video with a flight through the server chassis. As memory DDR266 is once again used, although also the Opteron with DDR333 support will come up. With the delivery of Opteron will start already in March, with enough available processors will be available. Also for the launch of Athlon 64 in September, AMD speaks of processors corresponding to a reimbursement demand range of.

With the 64 bit version of unreal we have been not quite as much tournament, because after all, are we not to play on a visit, and in addition UT 2003 on 32-bit systems, such as the Pentium 4 or Athlon XP, of course in an appropriate graphics card, runs more than liquid.