Dothan Lovin

[Smokey21]

I know it was transistors as originally stated, but it's also been observed to hold true for processor power more or less, so people have come to use the term for that as well.
Either way, processor power does roughly double every 18-24 months, not every 7 months.

Hmmmm, no it doesn't.

18 months ago we had clawhammer, im still using one. A FX-55 is not twie as powerful.

beofe that it was a Barton core, a clawhammer is not twice as powerful.

[Kumagoro]

Either way its not 7 months is it. It certainly seems to have slowed down alot in the last 2 to 3 years.... compared to before that. well thats how it has 'felt' to me anyway.

[muddyfox470]

Hand bags down ladies.

I always knew it as doubling as transistors, nowt much else, altho there is a general upward trend of processing power with age

So in a way you were both right (says in a primary school teacher sort of way! lol)

Ian

[Scarlet Infidel]

Is it transistors per core? ie does switching to dual core count?

[Butcher]

Not sure - moore's law was postulated well before dual cores were even considered a possibility.

[StormPC]

Thats my exact point, prescott will be nothing to dualcore when it comes to video and is already miles behind in everything else. But no other single cores, be it dothan, venice or san deago are as fast at encoding video, Divx in particular.

Also unlike benchmarking or gaming i consider a powerful computer to actually have value when it comes to video encoding.

Actually if you look at these reviews:

http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=335
http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=614
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njc1LDM=

And many others (these are just the first three found on a Yahoo search)...

And if you actually read the data, you'll see that the FX-55 holds it's own and in many cases beats the Prescots in encoding applications. The FX-57 and San Diego and Venice core A64s are even better at encoding with the addition of SSE3 and improved memory controllers.

Sorry, but Intel is getting hammered in all desktop applications. The only good thing Intel has done lately is the Pentium M (Dothan).

[suryad]

I agree 100% with you StormPC. The next gen Yonah's are supposed to be running in desktops as well next year...that will be quite an interesting showdown as I think from what I am seeing the Dothans are a slight bit better clock for clock vs the top of the line AMDs

[StormPC]

Yep. In most applications the Pentium M is the fastest CPU clock for clock.

[Scarlet Infidel]

Ah thank you, you have always said it but this is the first time you have actually shown me reviews to support your case. I want to point out though, that i means specifically Divx when i say video encoding and whilst my prescott wont be miles ahead it may be on par with these real processors from amd.

I think the reason i always found your point hard to accept was that all the charts i have seen dont actually include the fx-55. I retract my silly statment but still believe (to keep myself happy) that my £100 prescott was a good buy for divx encoding.

When the dual core cpus come into the mainstream (i mean so that i can afford one) ill have no problems with supporting AMD 100% as i always used to.

[suryad]

If you go to driverheaven.net you will see a review for the upcoming 2.8 ghz FX 57 and there is nothing faster than it in divx encoding. I am shocked by its performance really. I just hope AMD continues refining their architectures and is able to better the Pentium M. The Pentium M right now is slight bit faster clock for clock in my opinion.

[Scarlet Infidel]

Ignore this

[Scarlet Infidel]

Do you mean this review where it is actually beaten by the X2 4800?

[StormPC]

I think he meant the fastest single-core at DIV-X.

Don't know why anybody would be surprised at the FX-57's performance. Anyone who's overclocked their A64 a couple hundred MHz knows the profound effect it has. For most applications when CPUs are not overclocked the FX-57 is the fastest on earth.

[Scarlet Infidel]

Id go along with that, obviously i didnt consider the FX-57 when i made my comments as it hasnt been released.