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Subject: Re: Heating Up - AMD vs Intel [OT]

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:30:18 02/16/04

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On February 16, 2004 at 12:04:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 16, 2004 at 11:11:14, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2004 at 10:49:41, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7965000.htm
>>>
>>>"Intel has been secretly working on technology that would add the functions of a
>>>64-bit chip to its standard chips. By turning a standard Intel 32-bit chip into
>>>a 64-bit chip, a computer can handle more data-intensive jobs, such as running
>>>massive databases. Since AMD has been successful with its 64-bit offering, Intel
>>>has been under pressure by customers who are looking at other options for the
>>>low-end servers."
>>>
>>>
>>>Finally...the Itanic has sunk.
>>
>>It is about time because the Dual Opteron is much faster at the moment:
>>http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=opt248vsxeon32a&page=5
>
>
>You are comparing apples and oranges.  There is not a lot of difference in
>performance of opteron and recent itaniums.  Except opteron runs old x86 stuff
>very fast while itanium does not.  But for real 64 bit applications, compiled by
>64 bit compilers, running on 64 bit operating systems, _both_ are very good...


I wasn't comparing apples and oranges. At the moment a Dual Opteron is much
faster than a non itaniums ( Dual Xeon do NOT support 64 bit applications :-)

Jorge



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