AMD's Dual core faster than INTEL's quad-core

AMD's Opteron 285 (2.6GHZ) will arrive for purchase on Feb 24, 2006. Unlike the 120 watt Opteron 285SE which has been used by SUN for months, this is a 95 watt CPU. It seems AMD can continue to derive efficiencies from its advanced SOI process.

In Apache Benchmark, a 2.6GHZ FX60 dual core is twice as fast as a INTEL 2.8GHZ dual core Xeon Paxville. This implies that a 2.6GHZ AMD dual core is faster than INTEL's 2.8GHZ quad-core expected in 2007.

No real surprise here, we know INTEL's outdated shared bus architecture can't scale beyond two cores.