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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. Athlon64

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 13:32:32 09/02/03

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On September 02, 2003 at 16:24:22, Russell Reagan wrote:

>In an IRC channel today, there was some confusion as to whether to Opteron and
>the Athlon64 are the same thing or not. As I understand it, the Opteron is the
>server class version, and the Athlon64 is the single user version.
>
>If they are different, what is different about them? I am looking for specifics,
>such as cache size, and that sort of thing. I was able to find this information
>about the Opteron on AMD's website, but nothing along these lines regarding
>Athlon64.

AMD hasn't officially released any Athlon64s yet. They will on the 23rd.

Here is some unofficial info in the meantime

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11339

Seems like we might get both an Athlon 64 and an Athlon FX, the latter of which
actually *is* a relabelled Opteron.

>
>Which would be preferable for computer chess?

Cost-wise of performance-wise?  :-)


Bo Persson



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