Intel says Barcelona does better in HPC-like applications requiring more bandwidth

According to Diane Bryant, vice president of Intel's digital enterprise group and general manager of its server platforms group, "The only place AMD did better performance-wise with Barcelona is in HPC-like applications requiring more bandwidth. However, we've demonstrated performance for a number of years and have become [extremely comfortable] in that number one position so we're not going to do anything that will jeopardise that. We always benchmark ourselves against ourselves so let AMD do what AMD does." published on ITPro magazine.

Well I care a lot about performance of HPC applications, so I am worried for Intel and happy for AMD. If you are wondering why better memory bandwidth is good for HPC type applications read my earlier post here.

Also, I hope this helps AMD out of it debt which will help keep the marketplace competitive.

Hopefully, with Intel's overhaul of it's bus architecture and introduction of CSI, Intel will strike back to AMD in terms of performance of HPC type applications. But, I fear that it is several years out.