According to PC Magazine tests, and excuse me for not quoting the context (but quoting the idea): Itanium are a bit stronger CPUs, regarding 64bit performances. The are much slower then 32bit CPUs, when emulating 32bit. Athlon64 (Opteron) are much faster then 32bit CPUs, and are rather fast regarding 64bit performances.
Bottom line: If you are to run 32bit applications - Opetron are stronger then Xeon (same speeds), however, if you are for a pure 64bit applications, you better try and get yourself an itanium CPU. Sorry for not posting a link, but you could find it in PC-Magazine's editors choice. Ez. On Thursday 08 January 2004 19:55, Orna Agmon wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Arie Folger wrote: > > There was some talk about Mandrake (even in 2.4 kernels) already > > supporting SATA and about 2.6 supporting SATA. Anybody has experience > > with this? Is all SATA supported or only some chipsets? > > > > I also wonder whether an AMD64 is worthwhile. Does it really give a > > serious performance increase for home/office computing (the most > > demanding tasks will be home editing video captured with a firewire > > device and managing a growing mp3 collection of lectures I give, with > > therefore presumably some editing of those streams). > > > > Or do you, dear list members, think this is overkill since I am not > > playing Quake and not using the machine as an application server? > > > > Arie Folger > > I am still waiting to test an AMD64, but I tested the Itanium. Regarding > the Itanium I can say that the CPU was not really faster than a regular > 32bit I had (it was about 1.4Ghz) in number crunching. I think it was > actually slower than the 32 when emulating a 32bit (running an exe > compiled for 32). > > Also, the RH gcc compiler (2.96 something) had a bug when passing structs > by value (when not all of the elements were of the same size). > > I intend to get an AMD64 for evaluation, so I will be able to report > then. > > Orna. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
