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Subject: Re: P4 Vs Athlon 64 bits

Author: Mathieu Pagé

Date: 08:49:04 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 11:47:11, Volker Böhm wrote:

>Hi,
>
>an Opteron running at the same clock speed as an athlon 64 should be about 10%
>faster because of his larger cache. Usually an athlon 64 has 512KB and an
>opteron has 1024KB Cache. There are some Athlon 64 Models with 1024KB that
>should behave like single cpu opterons.
>
>In my tests an Athlon 64 running at 2 GHZ is about as fast as a Pentium 4
>running and 4 GHZ.
>
>Perhaps Bob has compared the speed of a 4 CPU Opteron System against a 4 CPU
>Xeon System. Here he might get a double-as-fast because Opterons have better
>multi-processor architectures.
>
>Greetings Volker

Hi Volker,

In all case it's more faster than I first tough.

Mathieu Pagé



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