First Benchmarks of Hammer Prototype

The Tested ClawHammer

As test mainboard we used an AMD's Solo 2 with 8000 chipset, the processor was a ClawHammer at 800 MHz. It was equipped with 64 Kbytes L1 cache each for instructions and data, the L2 cache came with 256 Kbytes. AMD vice president Richard Heye himself had announced the cache sizes at the first day of Computex.

The clock rate that was gauged with tecMem and WCPUID meets the result which was circulating at Computex on the quiet - and also this specification has already been reported by Heye to the British news site The Inquirer. If the lock against overclocking the Inquirer quotes has been a part of our test system we could not check, time was too short.

According to the software we had at our disposal it was a CPU "Stepping 0". But we can't truly be sure about this because Windows XP Professional, the test OS and the other programs can't possibly recognize the CPU. According to experience ClawHammer should experience at least one more Stepping until its launching.