Today AMD's third generation Opterons launches - only at 2GHz, but packed with many clever tricks to improve the IPC and with a surprise update coming in the near future. If AMD's newest quad-core is able to outperform the Intel alternatives clock for clock by a decent margin, we could see a return to the heady days of neck-and-neck CPU performance comparisons. Read on to see what AMD has been able to accomplish.
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