After so much waiting, the new AMD architecture comes to life as a server CPU and it doesn't look like it will be enough.

DailyTech has posted a list of articles dealing with this new offering, including performance numbers, and there's were it gets nasty. It's better than the K8, no doubt about it, but not nearly as much as it should've been in orther to regain the crown it lost to Intel more than a year ago.

Core 2 was so much better than the P4 than it easily surpassed it and the Athlon64. Hoping for AMD to do just that was optimistic to say the least. Even though the charts we can see now are using server motherboards with limitted RAM speed and Phenom is still expected to do better, it won't do well enough to compete with Penryn. And that's problem number one, the delay of the processor and the slight advancement from Intel's part will have it pitted against Kentsfield's successor. That's not what AMD had in mind, they were barely in a position to fight that battle, but Penryn will be just out of reach. It has better clock for clock performance and higher overclocking capabilities.

What's AMD going to do now? Probably continue with the only war they can still wage: a price war. But it's unclear for how long the company can sustain loses, they aren't exactly swimming in Uncle Scrooge's money pool, after going out ATI-shopping.

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