AMD64 Preview

Araxen writes "Over at Anandtech.com they have an interesting preview of AMD's 64 bit processor on a Nforce3 mobo. The results are very impressive with the Anthlon64 beating out Intel's P4 best processor soundly in their gaming benchmarks. This was only in 32-bit mode no less! I can't wait for 64-bit benchmarks come out!"

Comments

Well I'm hopefull.

[Harp3328]

I hope this means AMD will be able to compete on the high-end again. If I had a choice I won't buy intel.

Re:Will it be secure?

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop making crap up. I have a master's degree in microprocessor design and everything you just said is completely fabricated nonsense.

Re:64bit performance gains...

[ocelotbob]

I'd say that it's going to be 2 years until most home PCs are 64 bit for one compelling reason. Media. Even today, it's trivial to create a >4GB media file, especially with video, or audio with many, many tracks. Yeah, there are workarounds, but at the same time, it'll be much easier on the programmers, and lead to a much simpler debug process, if the design stage didn't include having to worry about an internal swapping mechanism for keeping track of an entire multi-gigabyte movie.