Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:13:19 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel ... Message-ID: <20040209131319.2o0wkwgcsswgg8oc@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <59D53984-5B26-11D8-8AE0-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <20040209121420.G13061@ganymede.hub.org> <59D53984-5B26-11D8-8AE0-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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Quoting Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>: > 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? > If I remember correctly though, the fp numbers are for SSE on the Xeon, and not the regular old FPU, p4 based machines are horrible when it comes to non-SSE/SSE2 type stuff. Ken
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