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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Pavel Blokhine

Date: 07:46:28 04/20/03

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On April 20, 2003 at 08:25:21, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On April 19, 2003 at 09:47:36, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>On April 19, 2003 at 09:44:52, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
>>
>>>On April 19, 2003 at 08:19:55, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>>
>>>>one more link, 11 pages, very slow server :
>>>>
>>>>http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64.html
>>>>
>>>>On April 19, 2003 at 07:46:47, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>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/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>On April 19, 2003 at 01:02:15, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On April 18, 2003 at 23:37:04, Brian Richardson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On April 18, 2003 at 21:58:06, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>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)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>How many weeks do we have to wait? Isn't it delayed already?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>What is it about the AMD Opteron that would make it considerably faster than the
>>>other AMD or Intel processor?
>>
>>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



What about the acutal processors speed? Will it be available in dual processors
too?



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