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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 05:25:21 04/20/03

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On April 19, 2003 at 09:47:36, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

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>On April 19, 2003 at 09:44:52, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
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>>On April 19, 2003 at 08:19:55, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
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>>>one more link, 11 pages, very slow server :
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>>>http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64.html
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>>>On April 19, 2003 at 07:46:47, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
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>>>>No bad news this time, the opteron systems will be out the 21st of april !!
>>>>
>>>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9039
>>>>http://www.amdzone.com/
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>>>>On April 19, 2003 at 01:02:15, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
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>>>>>On April 18, 2003 at 23:37:04, Brian Richardson wrote:
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>>>>>>On April 18, 2003 at 21:58:06, Jonas Bylund wrote:
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>>>>>>>>Thanks. But so far, nobody has told me if it was a faster machine than the dual
>>>>>>>>Xeon 2.8Ghz...which was the thing i wanted to know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Yes dual AMD 2600+ would be faster.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Jonas
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have a dual AMD system and the SMP scalability efficiency is at best about
>>>>>>1.7x vs 1.9x for the Intel systems, IIRC, so the systems would be about equal if
>>>>>>the 2600+ CPUs were each about as fast as the 3GHz Intels.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Why not wait a few weeks for the newer AMD Opteron (also 64 bit)?
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>>>>>
>>>>>How many weeks do we have to wait? Isn't it delayed already?
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>>What is it about the AMD Opteron that would make it considerably faster than the
>>other AMD or Intel processor?
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>1 MB cache + memory controller on CPU + 64 Bits
+ 16 registers 64 bits  (instead of 8 for amd and intel 32 bits) + better
internal architecture



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