[Wylug-discuss] Linux on Intel 64-Bit Xeon

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:19:24PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:
>>> How does the EM64T perform compared with AMD64 in 64-bit mode?
>>
>> Well, how does an ice cream perform against a walnut whip?
>
> Not really fair, since I freely admitted to ignorance on these matters
> (hence the questions) and since I don't think I had unreasonably
> misinterpreted the prior discussion as implying that AMD64 and EM64T
> were actually comparable.

But I it is a question that's very difficult to answer, as are any questions
to do with benchmarks and performance evaluation.  I almost feel that to
answer that question with a short answer would be worse than not answering at
all, and I don't have the figures or personal experience for the long answer.
Have a look at tomshardware or anandtech for a comparitive review.

Personally I think an ice cream is better, but that's probably affected by the
current weather.

I can tell you that the dual Xeon 3.6 box we've got with 2Gigs of RAM is a
screamer, honestly the fastest thing I've ever used at the desktop.  The
graphics card will help a little with that (Quadro FX 4400), although not
much.  But then I've not used an equivalent AMD64 box to compare it against.

jh

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