Hammer benchmarks?

[Colin]

A German site Tec Channel has a Clawhammer at 800 MHz and benchmarks it against a AthlonMP at 1667 MHz and a P4 Williamette at 1.6 GHz. Very <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/937/">interesting</a> to say the least!

[CHE]

Yeah, that's really something. You knwo, it's good to have things to look forward to, it makes life more interesting <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Colin]

Boy the Hammer sure does have a lot of potential.. Just imagine how fast it'll be when it's clocked at 1.5 GHz+! I wonder how they'll fair though against P4's at 3 Ghz+. It's going to be interesting to say the least! Go AMD! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

Just thinking outloud-------> How to overclock a AMD Hammer??? With an integrated memory controller, doesn't that eliminate the FSB? I highly doubt there is going to be an EZ way to unlock these CPUs as there will be no visibile bridges since they will have a integrated heat spreader....How will we overclock? They run extremely cool (some people believe that the early models won't need a fan on the heat sinks), and use very little power. Seems to me like they'd be an overclocker's dream come true. They will outperform Intel in such a huge way, that a 100Mhz overclock would be equivilent to OC'ing a P4 by 200-250Mhz. On top of that, these CPU's are being designed for stability. That's why AMD only has them out running at 800Mhz. For the purpose of gaming they could release one right now for 1.5Ghz. Once they do get them stabley up to 1.5-2.0Ghz, Gamers should have no problem running them around 2.5Ghz. Don't ya think?..............Any comments?

[Colin]

Unfortuntaely I doubt we'll knwo how well the Hammer oc's till they come out. The current samples are only so MB manufacturers can work out all the bugs. No, an intergrated memory controller doesn't rule out FSB overclocking since the core doesn't include a clock generator. That will still be up to the motherboard. I'm almost 100% positive that these chips will be multiplier locked. YOur right there are no traces on the CPU, so it looks like the end.<BR><BR>I doubt they'd run cool enough to not need heatsinks, but another reason for those large heatsinks is for EMI shielding.<BR><BR>Remember, these are early engineering samples for manufacturers to work out all the kinks. They're not interested in how fast it is, just that the thing works! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> WE'll have to see about the scalability though.