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Subject: Re: Deep Sjeng Opteron Performance Results

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:28:16 08/09/03

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On August 07, 2003 at 15:08:29, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>Unfortunately, "clock per clock" rating methodology is wrong.

It's only 'wrong' when you don't understand what is being talked
about. I don't have access to the latest and greatest of both the
Athlon, P4 and Opteron. I can do a clock for clock measurement on
the ones I _do_ have AND look at the fastest available clockspeed
for each CPU and base my conclusion on that. Which is exactly what
I have done.

My conclusion is that the Opteron 2.0Ghz is faster than anything
else, even though the Pentium 4 runs at 3.2Ghz in its fastest
incarnation.

The only problem with this measurement is that performance may
not scale linarly. For the things discussed here, it scales
linarly enough.

>PS. I believe you did not provide another interesting data: speed of your
>program running *on the same CPU* when compiled with 32- and 64-bit compilers.
>AMD64 runs 32-bit applications natively with high speed (unlike Itaniums), so
>this way you can measure just effect of 64- vs. 32-bit data and 16 vs. 8
>registers.

As I already said, I didn't measure it because it is irrelevant for me. I
can run natively at 64 bits, no need for outdated 32 bit support.

--
GCP



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