Sorry to disappoint you Athlon64 people..

[WingWizard]

But the first benchies are out

http://translate.google.com/translat...known&oe=ASCII

it's French, so bear with the translation The graphs speak for themselves though

[darrelld]

GO DUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw those elsewhere too, and was totally unimpressed.

[WingWizard]

*sigh*; i wish the michigan i knew showed up in teh first quarter instead of the first.

once again, everyone here had their hearts broken. We though this year might be different...serves us right, i suppose.

[J-Excel]

Sucks to be AMD these days.

[haxxorpoop]

Aggreed

[Ultima]

Don't forget that the fastest Athlon64 is over 1Ghz slower then the P4 and that P4 has dual channel to it's side.

And trust me, the Athlon 64 will do a bit better when run in 64-bit OS, but then again, nobody needs 64 bit atm.

If I were to buy a 64 bit cpu, it'd be the opteron 146, but I'd wait with that untill prices come down a little.

My guess is that the K8 was never really meant to take over the XP, but more just the server market, where it seems to do pretty well against the Xeon's and Itaniums, due to price/performance ratio again.

[Nighthawk]

I think it's pretty interesting in those graphs how little the 2MB of L3 helps the P4 EE.

[JayMan]

Just loading up that page now... But from your comments the athlon64 sucks...

From what i seen with some 3dmark01 benchies by a regular @ the futuremark forums, the athlon64 performs extremely well for its clock speed.

WIll have to give a read thru the review...

JayMan

[squeech]

I'm with JayMan on this one. These benchmarks (which are far from the first ones) do not agree with anything else I've seen on Anandtech, individual 3DMark scores, etc.

Using the data set of multiple benchmarks that I've seen, this one would have to be thrown out on inconsistency.

[shawshank62]

figures why the scores came out so low!

they were done by frenchies!!! lets see some american stuff before we call it a piece of crap.