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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 15:58:08 04/21/03

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On April 20, 2003 at 10:06:01, Vincent Lejeune 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
>
>caution, may be this was a beta hardware :
>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9046
>
>
>>
>>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
>>>>>


Dual AMD 2600MP 64MB Hash Deepfritzmark Test Position = 2,053kN/s
Dual 2.8 Xeon 64MB Hash Deepfritzmark Test Position = 2,209kN/s

So...no it isn't faster...

Charles
>>>>>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?



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