From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 09:35:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E2116A4E4 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-88.apple.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B3943D1D for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:35:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i19HZYa1004809; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (nfw2.codefab.com [66.234.138.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id i19HZXmu017688; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:35:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20040209121420.G13061@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040209121420.G13061@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <59D53984-5B26-11D8-8AE0-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:35:28 -0500 To: "Marc G. Fournier" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 17:35:34 -0000 On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > G'day all ... > > Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, > and > want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives > approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz processor would be approx > equivalent to an AMD ... ?? I know you're not a troll, Marc, but this question is much like asking whether emacs or vi makes a better editor. :-) An Intel Xeon 2.4GHz CPU approximately resembles an AMD 2400MP CPU in terms of capabilities and performance. By this I mean they get very similar scores from www.spec.org's spec2000int: Epox 8KHA+, AMD Athlon XP 2400+: 782 Dell PowerEdge 2650 (2.4 GHz Xeon): 792 ...although the spec2000fp numbers are 641 vs. 726, so the Xeon does better at floating point. For that particular test, anyway. Do you require SMP capabilities? What are you trying to do with this machine? -- -Chuck