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Subject: Re: Opteron > 970, Good article

Author: Hristo

Date: 20:01:02 06/24/03

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On June 24, 2003 at 20:10:15, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On June 24, 2003 at 19:21:20, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>On June 24, 2003 at 17:02:42, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>I understand why you think what you do. You want to see how different CPUs
>>>perform running the exact same code. Allowing different binaries to be run on
>>>the different CPUs seem to lose control over a variable you prefer to be held
>>>constant.
>>>
>>
>>I think that's what Apple wanted to do. What I want to see doesen't matter....
>>:)
>>They wanted to show that their CPU ist competitive. The "fastest computer on the
>>planet" was maybe a bit to much. ;)
>>
>>It all depends what you want. I try to avoid binaries for Intel, that's why I
>
>What processor do you use that doesn't run Intel binaries??
>

Dual PPC G4, with OS X, Yellowdog linux +
Sparc

Regards.

>-Tom



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