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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. XP

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 18:35:42 06/28/03

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On June 28, 2003 at 19:12:16, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>Elsewhere in this thread, someone asserted that for chess, the Opteron "not much
>faster" Mhz per Mhz as an Athlon XP. I thought this didn't seem right, but
>looking at the crafty sections of SPECint2000 at
>http://www.aceshardware.com/SPECmine/ makes it look like a fair (?) assessment.

Did you look at the same numbers as I did?  1800MHz Opteron performs about where
you'd expect to see a 2100MHz Athlon for Crafty, according to SPEC numbers.  So,
Opteron is performing some 16% better per MHz than the Athlon here.



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