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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Pavel Blokhine

Date: 09:44:31 04/20/03

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On April 20, 2003 at 12:25:52, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On April 20, 2003 at 10:46:28, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>Should be available soon in dual, quad and eight-way configurations. Should be
>blindingly fast SMP too, because of HyperTransport and the on-chip memory
>controller. They're already starting to list Opterons on various pages but I'm
>not sure if you can get one RIGHT now though.


Does soon mean in one month, 3 or 6? And i see that the actual clock speed of
the opteron is only 1.8 Ghz or something? How is that faster than an a dual AMD
Athlon 2.13 Ghz or Dual Xeon 3.06 Ghz?



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