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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 17:16:40 04/20/03

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On April 20, 2003 at 12:44:31, Pavel Blokhine wrote:

>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?

will be Officially announce and available this monday, the 1.8 Ghz should be as
fast as an intel 3 Ghz and 15% faster with 64 bits applications (may be more for
chess programs)

Let's wait one week and everything will be much clearer...



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