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Subject: Re: windows for AMD64 - MMX not 64-bit threadsafe

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 19:58:10 08/29/03

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On August 29, 2003 at 16:05:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>Ok, so if we are talking about what is available *right now*, not about some
>future products:
>
>* Itanium2 has absoulute best FP performance, as well as absolut best SpecFP
>rate.
>* Xeon has very competive price / FP performance for the uniprocessor system. I
>am not sure if Xeon or Opteron is better this week, because all depends on exact
>prices and discounts.
>* Opteron and Itanium2 probably have comparable price / FP performance for the
>multi-CPU systems (SPEC FP rate for the single-CPU Itanium2 is the same as for
>the dual-CPU Opteron, so single-CPU Itanium2 system can be 2x more expensive
>than dual Opteron system).

Yeah it could, except that it's 4X more expensive.  The list price for our 2 X
2.0Ghz Opteron system is around $6000.  For the two-way 1.5Ghz Madison system
that gets 30 SPEC FP rate it's $26,000.

>For integer performance story is different, but that thread was about FP
>performance, right? :-)
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene



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