Re: � mp 1900 vs athlon 64 x2 ???

From: Chris (ithinkiam_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:52:02 +0000

Mark wrote:
> serge wrote:
>
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>>I wonder what would perform better
>>relatively old 2 x (dual) athlon MP 1900 vs modern athlon 64 X2
>>any ideas?
>>
>>thank u
>
>
> the Athlon64 X2 by a lot,
> the X2 has tighter coupling between the cores than
> the MP would. The X2 as a Athlon64 has more registers
> since it's using X86-64 and the MP is plain X86.
> The X2 has a builtin memory controller and on and on.
> The X2 supports more floating point standards.
> Mark
>
>
plus the X2s have larger L1 and L2 caches, the FSB is 200Mhz
instead of 133Mhz (DDR), and the cpus run at faster core speeds.
There really isn't any comparison.

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