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AMD Dual-Core Performance Revealed
Timmus writes "In two separate articles, FiringSquad takes a look at the performance of AMD's dual-core Opteron CPU. The first article examines the performance of dual-core in scientific computing applications (MATLAB and LS-DYNA) as well as digital photography, while the second story focuses on the performance of dual-core Opteron paired against Intel's dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition in video encoding, Cinebench, and a few other applications. The performance improvements are pretty impressive in multi-threaded applications that take advantage of the technology."
I am running one right now, which is why I got first post!
The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.
Why would you need anything faster? I just dont understand... With gentoo compiled with the -superfast and -fatroll flags my system runs fine.
where I can encode mpeg2 DVD (maybe it will be HD-DVD by then), rip & copy a DVD, Download a huge torrent, and Play UT with a respectable framerate.
Imagine two dual core CPUs plugged into a dual CPU mobo.
Pop an erection yet?
all we need is some dip, and we've got some heavy duty crunching!
Dell still won't sell servers with them ....
I am waiting for intel's 32768 core processor.
iirc, the p4ee dual core puts out 225 watts at full power.
That would make the chip putting out roughly 3686400 watts, or 3.686 megawatts.
It's too cold on this planet anyway.
On my Gentoo AMD64 -O3 compiled system, running Gnome, Rhythmbox, Evolution, Epiphany, Liferea and GAIM, it is using 365 MB of RAM, not including buffers or disk cache.
In contrast, Windows XP running a similar set of applications was only using 230 MB.
Nearly all popular linux distributions now come on more than one CD (even if you ignore the source code) and the default installations are WAY bigger than that of Windows XP.
Also, they work properly.
Man, you can't even copy and paste correctly.
Maybe you need a dual core athlon to do that...?
Karnal