12 Sep
2006
12 Sep
'06
2:41 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 11:29 -0500, Chris Abbott wrote:
Found these articles on the net. Of course some of the
benchmarks aren't
that reliable, due to the fact of how software is compiled, compile
flags in Gentoo, and options passed to that program when ran.
AMD 64-bit vs. Intel 64-bit
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/24/1747228&mode=thread
AMD 64-bit Dual Core Benchmarks
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/1625246
I couldn't find any information on the duo on linuxhardware.org, but I
may not have looked deep enough. Just remember, like sound
equipment(especially speakers), compare before buying.
Pentium-4 EE's are so old school.
While these benchmarks are not done on Linux, this is the current state
of ye olde AMD vs Intel competition:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/14/core2_duo_knocks_out_athlon_64/
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=832&cid=1
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.x?pg=1
The bottom line: Core 2 Duo beats anything AMD can offer. Even the more
cheaper not top-of-the-line Core 2 Duo processors kill the fastest AMD
processors in most cases. Oh, and the AMD processors use almost twice
the energy of a Core 2 Duo.
Though. All of this will change eventually, of course. :)
Sampo