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Subject: Re: Opteron > 970, Good article

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:10:24 06/24/03

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On June 24, 2003 at 14:02:02, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On June 24, 2003 at 10:15:48, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/
>
>I very good laugh indeed. The guy in the article compares G5/Xeon results using
>VeriTest compiled on gcc3.3 with Intel P4 results and another Dell WS with
>VeriTest compiled on Intel C++ 7.0 compiler.
>
>
>Compiler:
>Intel C++ 7.0 build 20021021Z
>        Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0.9466 (libraries)
>
>The AMDs may be faster but you cannot compare benchmarks compiled with different
>compilers.

Sure you can. SPEC CPU is a CPU benchmark, not a CPU + gcc benchmark. You use
whatever compiler you can to get the best score possible to indicate raw CPU
performance.

-Tom



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