Actually the main current advantage of AMD64 is that the new chips are plain faster than the old Athlons (and also faster than the fastest P4s at many things).
However the question of how they will perform under a 64 bit operating system is intriguing. David. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead > Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 11:43 AM > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: RE: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net > > > I think the main advantage to use AMD64 is to take advantage of > big address > space. But 1G RAM in one piece is far too expensive compare to > 512M RAM. And > motherboard I know of only allow to put max 8 piece RAM. That > make AMD64 not > so useful. I really like a motherboard can support 64 piece or > more of 512M > RAM each. This way I can get 32G RAM easily and cheaply. And bus > speed also > limit io transaction for network card. I think AMD 64 mainly area > is server > side. If can't solve network card bottleneck, AMD64 might not be > so useful. > > And Delphi, Kylix isn't support AMD 64. I know gcc compiler/linux > os support > AMD64. And no Microsoft Windows official release for AMD64, I think only > beta version. That mightbe the reason can't push AMD64 sales high which > effect price too. > > Regards > Leigh > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Brennan > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:08 AM > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: RE: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net > > > You mean compare two completely different CPUs? What would that prove? > > Perhaps more relevent would be a test of the 64 bit AMD chip under both 32 > bit and 64 bit modes. > > David. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phil Scadden > > Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 10:45 AM > > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net > > > > > > > no doubt many of you read slashdot anyway, but for those that > > don't and are > > > interested in one persons assessment of 32 vs 64 bit > > performance, here is an > > > interesting link: > > > > > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/23/220205&mode > > =thread&tid=185 > > > > Not that relevant since talking about Ultra Sparc - and besides was > > compiling application written for 32bit under both systems. Compare the > > benchmarks between Itanium 64 and the P32... > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences > > 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand > > Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Delphi mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
