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Subject: Re: P4 Vs Athlon 64 bits

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:56:54 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 11:42:41, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On August 15, 2005 at 11:34:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2005 at 11:27:53, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>>
>>>You can safely assume that the following rule is valid:
>>>
>>>P4 x .6 = AMD64 Ghz
>>>
>>>examples:  P4 @ 3 Ghz = AMD64 @ 1.8 Ghz, or P4 @ 2.4 Ghz = AMD64 @ 1.44 Ghz
>>>
>>>Regarding the 2.4 Ghz AMD64 that you plan to buy, it would turn out that only a
>>>(non-existant as yet) P4 running at 4 Ghz would meet the equation.
>>>
>>>Simply put, an AMD64 2.4 Ghz is as fast for chess as a P4 @ 4Ghz, and quite
>>>often it is as fast as a dual Xeon 2.4 (most notably running Shredder 9).
>>>
>>>All this holds true for 32 bit systems, but a 64 bit OS would lead to Hyatt's
>>>idea that a single AMD64 would be almost twice as fast as a 2.8 dual Xeon.
>>>
>>>
>>>I hope that this detailed information will help you to decide which way to go.
>>>
>>>Djordje
>>
>>Your comparison is slightly broken.  AMD = 64 bits, PIV is not.  In the case of
>>Crafty, this changes things so that a 2.2ghz opteron is over 2.1x faster than a
>>2.8ghz PIV xeon (with 1mb L2 to boot on the intel)).
>
>
>
>Me no understand :-((  I just said that *quote* ...[your idea is] that a single
>AMD64 would be almost twice as fast a 2.8 dual Xeon [on a 64 bit OS].  So, what
>is it exactly that you want to say?  I said 'almost twice' and you quoted 2.1x
>faster...
>
>I may be missing something though.
>
>Djordje


Sorry, I was really responding to your p4 * .6.  For Crafty that .6 is actually
less than .5...



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