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    Intel Montevino V/S AMD Puma.....Who will Win ??????

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cynozure007, Sep 7, 2007.

  1. cynozure007

    cynozure007 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi...

    AMD is all set to go straight at the neck of Intel with their Puma Chipset coupled with the Griffin Processor.....And it is not aimig for Santa Rosa...but rather the much awaited Montevino platform( Cantiga chipset).....

    Though the Griffin is still a 65nm technolgy as compared to the Penryn 45nm Technology...

    Puma basics
    In a nutshell, the Puma platform consists of a K8-based dual-core processor, code-named "Griffin," the RS780 northbridge, and the SB700 southbridge. The core logic chipset sports the following list of major features:

    CPU: Dual-core K8-based architecture with power optimizations
    Socket: AM3
    Memory: DDR2
    Frontside Bus: HyperTransport 3.0 (2.6GHz 16-bit scalable link, for 20.8GB/s of bandwidth)
    I/O :pCIe Gen 2
    PCI
    14X USB 2.0
    Graphics and sound: DVI/HDMI/DP
    Two independent display controllers
    HD audio
    Storage: 6x SATA
    PATA
    HyperFlash


    But the AMD does not support the Robson Technology. (turbo cache)...it intends to rely on full-flash hard drives and hybrid drives...


    So which do u guyz think will pan out to be the best....????????
     
    cynozure007, Sep 7, 2007
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  2. SideSwipe

    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    a K8 processor?

    i dont see how the old architecture can truly go up against something thats a few steps ahead.

    now if it was their new K10 CPUs then not seeing any benchmarks I could say they have a chance, but old stuff vs something generations ahead? nope
     
    SideSwipe, Sep 7, 2007
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  3. powerpack

    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Neither, both will find there niche. I suspect Intel will have the high end and AMD will have an impact on the value. In the past AMD did a David vs Goliath on Intel but Intel has so many more resources than AMD that it is hard to compete. Look how many crappy P4 they sold on name alone. What, Intel is the largest and AMD is 8th? Also the platforms are over rated. Dell is not selling “Santa Rosa's” for the most part because they sell their own WiFi by default therefore making it not a “Santa Rosa” so that is my opinion, platforms don't mean much! What CPU and what chipset, that's it!
     
    powerpack, Sep 7, 2007
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  4. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Dell was selling Intel 4965 AGN wireless cards weeks ago, but then took them away with the recent price increases.

    Go Intel!
     
    Jayayess1190, Sep 7, 2007
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