So Intel's advantage will be short lived at best. More url's (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/12/01/amd_aims_to_reclaim_cpu_crown/ ) (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/11/028220&from=rss )
----- Original Message ---- From: Randall Shimizu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ed brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Paul Axford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Craig Fujimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:09:44 PM Subject: Re: Which Intel Processor? One has to remember that the only reason that Intel has a slight advantage is because most apps are 32 bit, With the exception of Intel's Itanium all it's other processors are 32 bit cores with 64 extensions. So all the benchmarks you see are for 32 bit processors. AMD is coming out with there Quad core 64 (45nm) Barcelona (http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTE3NCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA== ) core in late spring I believe. Currently AMD has the Quad FX which uses 2 FX64 CPU's on a motherboard. But when AMD's Quad core Barcelona does ship the advantage will shift in their favor. It will be much harder for Intel to shift to 64. AMD's chips are made by IBM so they have considerable R&D resources to draw upon. After doing this research I feel much better about AMD ----- Original Message ---- From: Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:20:45 PM Subject: Re: Which Intel Processor? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > Anyone willing to speculate on whether AMD is likely to climb back, and > if so when? Climb back? From/to where? FWIW I really like my AMD64 X2 processors. I have one at home and on my recommendation we have purchased a whole lot of them at work and they are working out very nicely. We also have Opterons which are very nice also. Higher memory performance. I recently got my Xen/AoE SAN cluster system into production. A single core of our quad-core (two dual-core chips) Opteron system is now serving all of the HTTP requests of our entire website. This job used to be performed by 4 3Ghz P4's and they were nearly overwhelmed. Pretty impressive. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFiKwN9PIYKZYVAq0RAopnAJ45BearqWO4QqZzcMJCvaVm+RpvmwCfS9bU /0A953wjsq6MAc5jvc4YOTQ= =gzyI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
