SAN JOSE -- Advanced Micro Devices' chief technical officer tipped the performance of the 64-bit Hammer chip at the Microprocessor Forum on Tuesday.
"The Opteron architecture offers industry-leading performance for enterprise-class servers but at the same time it's a sweet little processor for the desktop," said Fred Weber, AMD's vice-president of engineering for the Computational Products Group.
While discussing how OEMs could best implement multiprocessor systems using the Opteron - the brand name encompassing the "Clawhammer" Opteron processor for the desktop and the "Sledgehammer" processor for servers - Weber also mentioned the performance of Opteron test silicon.
A single Opteron core running at an actual clock speed of 2.0-GHz with registered PC2700 memory yielded a SPECint2000 score of 1202, and a SPECfp2000 score of 1170, Weber said. He did not formally disclose whether the chip was a "Clawhammer" or "Sledgehammer" chip.
