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Subject: Re: What's strongest AMD 64 single-proc. now?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 12:53:47 10/20/05

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On October 20, 2005 at 10:25:17, John Dillard wrote:

>On October 19, 2005 at 17:00:35, enrico carrisco wrote:
>
>>On October 19, 2005 at 14:25:50, John Dillard wrote:
>>
>>>The strongest 64 bit processor on the market is the dual core G5 from Apple.  It
>>>runs runs 21 double precision gigaflops per second and 76 in single precision
>>>mode.  Nothing from Intel or AMD even gets in the ballpark.
>>
>>Impressive but I doubt Mr. Taylor was asking in reference to "rendering"
>>something.  Perhaps within the Adobe stuff that was made for the Mac the numbers
>>are very impressive -- but visit the link below for the real world (including
>>computer chess, which just happens to be what this forum is about...)  G5 gets
>>raped.  Period.
>>
>>http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=5
>>
>>-elc.
>
>I was talking about the new dual core G5's.  Neither Intel or AMD has anything
>out that is remotely close in power at the present time.

Can they be used with regular PC software? Are they not toooo expensive?
S.Taylor



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