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Subject: Re: Is AMD 2.2 Ghz. 64 bit, an upgrade to 3.2 Ghz. 32 bit, in all ways?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 05:25:31 12/14/03

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On December 14, 2003 at 07:15:08, stuart taylor wrote:

>On December 14, 2003 at 03:50:21, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On December 14, 2003 at 03:31:47, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>On December 13, 2003 at 23:56:06, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 13, 2003 at 22:09:22, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Including speed, for all applications? Or for all chess programs?
>>>>>If not, why did they now make 2.2 (or 2.0?).
>>>>>S.Taylor
>>>>
>>>>What "3.2GHz" cpu do you speak of?  A P4?  If so, yes, you would see a nice
>>>>speed up even on 32-bit apps, chess or non-chess.
>>>
>>>I'm speaking of the same company, AMD.
>>>If the difference varies from program to program, which Ghz. of 64 bit-AMD would
>>>you say, is safely a speed-up (over amd/32/3.2Ghz) on ANY application (32 or
>>>64)?
>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>There is no 3.2GHz AMD processor.
>
>Oh!
>
>So whatever it was. 3 Ghz? 2.8 Ghz?
>
>Funny, I thought the 3.2 was Amd.
>
>S.Taylor

You're thinking of the intel PIV.

The fastest amd cpu is 2.2 Ghz. To "help" people make performance comparisons,
amd has instituted "performamce ratings." For instance, the 2.2 Ghz athlon xp
has a 3200+ PR.



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