Differences in AMD chips
Differences in AMD chips
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Can anyone share their knowledge in what the differences are between the Athlon AMD chip and the Opteron, and what the benefits of one might be over the other for use with a workstation to run SW.
Second part of this question: The clock speeds pertaining to these chips... can they be compared to P4 chips... in other words if a P4 chip is rated at 3 GHz and an AMD Athlon chip is 2.6 GHz.... is it being compared apples to apples?
Thanks. Considering a new work station and trying to nail down some of the finer issues.
Second part of this question: The clock speeds pertaining to these chips... can they be compared to P4 chips... in other words if a P4 chip is rated at 3 GHz and an AMD Athlon chip is 2.6 GHz.... is it being compared apples to apples?
Thanks. Considering a new work station and trying to nail down some of the finer issues.






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RE: Differences in AMD chips
RE: Differences in AMD chips
By the way, comparing clock speed between Intel and AMD is certainly no apples to apples. My Opteron machine has a 1.7 GHz chip that rivalled P4 3.X GHz machines in benchmarks. Clock speed is no longer everything, especially with the crazy heat generated in cranking up the GHz--so AMD got a jump on speeding their chips in other ways.
Maybe I should run a benchmark on my new FX-60 to see where we are with new stuff. ..
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: Differences in AMD chips
Thanks for the input.