Author: Mathieu Pagé
Date: 08:02:31 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 10:55:43, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On August 15, 2005 at 10:32:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 15, 2005 at 10:11:22, Mathieu Pagé wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I'm planning to buy an AMD Athlon 64 3400+. I never own an AMD computer nor a 64 >>>bits CPU. >>> >>>I'd like to know to wich Pentium IV clock this Athlon will compare regarding >>>chess programs. >>> >>>Mathieu Pagé >> >> >>Here is actual comparison, ignoring the 3400+ crap. >> >>A 2.2ghz opteron is significantly more than twice as fast as a single xeon >>2.8ghz, from comparisons I have done many times since I am running on a 2.2ghz >>opteron and have the xeon handy to compare with. >> >>I don't know what the clock speed is for the 3400+ stuff however... > > >The Athlon64 3400 is 2.4 Ghz (socket 754 normally) and should therefore be >faster than the 2.2 Ghz Opteron. However Athlon64 are only for single CPU >systems. > >regards >Andy Hi, If I understand well (I oubviously don't), you are telling that this 2.4 Ghz Athlon 64 is faster than a 2.2 Ghz Opteron (This surprise me), that in turn is twice as fast (!!) as a 2.8 Ghz Xeon. There must be something I do not catch here. What is it ? Mathieu
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