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The Top CPUs Under Linux

Posted by timothy on from the hard-to-go-wrong-nowadays dept.

Linux Hack writes "LinuxHardware.org has published their latest review and this one covers the top processors from both the big x86 manufacturers. If you want to see who's on top under Linux, you should check out this review. There's something here for both Intel and AMD fanboys!"

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  1. Re:Power consumption -- wow! by questionlp · · Score: 2, Informative

    The 130W number is the maximum TDP (Thermal Design Power) for that line of processors, so it may not hit 130W even in peak usage. AMD uses the same kind of logic behind their power numbers as well. Unless if you are running several CPU burn-like programs at once, the processor will average below that number, mostly when the throttler kicks in so that the processor doesn't burn up.

    I believe the newer versions of the Athlon and Pentium 4/D processors will scale back clock speed and/or voltage in order to preserve power (be it through Enhanced SpeedStep or AMD's equivalent).

  2. crap comparison by smash · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. Did the benchmarker play with make -j arguments to enable the compile to take advantage of multiple cores?
    2. Did the reviewer try splitting the povray renders into sections, to render concurrently on multiple cores (as povray has been able to do since at least 1993).

    Picking, or limiting benchmarks to a single thread when testing multiple core/multiple virtual cpus per core is retarded.

    smash.

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    1. Re:crap comparison by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Boy, I wish people would actually READ the articles:

      "For all of our multiple-thread benchmarks we ran the number of cores plus one for the number of threads. The only exception to this was the Extreme Edition with Hyper-Threading in which we ran four threads."

      "Our final multi-threaded benchmark is our Firefox compile. This benchmark uses the Gentoo emerge system to unpack, compile, and install Mozilla Firefox. We are able to define the number of threads to use when compiling and the total time is reported."