The “Break it Down” Blog

Intel Claims Upcoming Core i7 Nehalem Architecture to be 50% Faster

Expreview.com got ahold of a marketing doc from Intel that claimed the upcoming Nehalem-based “Core i7″ architecture would be approximately 50% faster than the existing 3.2Ghz QX9770 CPU. More specifically the document quotes the following vauge-ish values: 38% more rendering performance 41% more movie editing and conversion performance 52% more 3D gaming performance Let’s try and de-marketing-asshole-ify these numbers [...]

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AMD Attacks Intel Using “We Suck” Strategy

In an interesting strategic strategy, AMD has decided to partner with Dell (who almost dropped them from their server lineup) to release a Three-Core (yea, tri-core) server line of Phenom computers. The icing on the cake? The 3-core (aka “Tard Core”) Phenoms are actually just quad-core Phenoms with 1 core disabled… so that’s awesome. I’ve never heard [...]

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AMD’s Quad-Core CPUs Having Severe Problems

Well AMD can’t catch a break… first they tackle Intel and p0wn them and maintain the lead for something like 4 years… in that time, they never fundamentally redesign their chip, simply releasing refresh after refresh of the same K7 core and then the K8 core. Intel responds with the Core Duo platform and shits all [...]

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1986 Mac vs 2007 AMD Dual Core

This is pretty unbelievable. HubPages has put together this great “productivity comparison” between the original Mac Plus and a brand new AMD Dual Core machine. The idea being not the overall functionality, but the productivity boost doing the most common office-based tasks (Saving, editing, copy-paste, etc.) and seeing the performance differences between the machines. Even though [...]

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Intel Jumps AMD to Quad Core Chips

I was really surprised to see this news today. I know that in response to the Core 2 Duo benchmarks AMD announced quad-core chips for next year in their top end gamer line of chips, so I figure that next year Intel will release a prototype of a quad-core chip later in 2007 to [...]

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