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Subject: Re: What makes an AMD Dual MP better than an Intel Dual Xeon ?!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:09:51 10/24/02

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On October 24, 2002 at 05:11:19, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>If you compare the architecture advantages of a Dual AMD MP such as: The
>operation per clock cycle, the floating point pipelines and the L1 Cache size
>you can immediately see why AMD is the King.
>
>http://www.amd.com/gb-uk/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_865_4362,00.html


Then why is is that they are not?

The memory sub-system apparently has a bottleneck that the intel boxes do not
have,
based on benchmark numbers posted here by Eugene and others...



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