[dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation

So what are floating point calculations all about? And if AMD are that good,
why are Intel the much bigger company with 95% of the market?


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: JMoss [mailto:jmoss111 at bellsouth.net]
Sent: 08 June 2004 17:20
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I don't remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but going back 13
years, I almost remember that being one of the the main reasons for choosing
the AMD 386 DX40 over Intel, however the overall price/performance advantage
did weigh in.

jm

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Mitsules,
Mark S. (Newport News)
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:57 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation


If I'm not mistaken, floating point calculations have always been the
strongest feature of AMD processors.


Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: JMoss [mailto:jmoss111 at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:48 AM
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I've been using AMD processors for 13 years and never owned an Intel
processor, but the United Devices cancer research program that runs on my
AMD Athlon 2500 (1.8 ghz) speaks volumes to me about AMD vs Intel
performance comparisons. The benchmark system for the UD program is a 1.5
GHz P4 and has a rating of 100. My AMD 1.8GHz machine consistently produces
rating numbers in the 170 - 180 area. Most other volunteer participants
report similar results. An interesting fact is that the UD Cancer research
program is partially sponsored by Intel, which doesn't necessarily mean that
their code is optimized for Intel processors, but I'd say that it's not
likely optimized for AMD processors either.

jm

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
Tapia
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:18 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation


I'm looking towards the AMD64 laptops for my next pc/laptop.

Athlon's for me have performed leaps and bounds over P4's.  In fact, Ghz
per Ghz, I have an AMD 2000 (1.6ghz) at home and a P4 1.6ghz at work,
and can you guess wich runs faster?

:)

with the new batch of AMD64 they are putting dual cores so that's one
other reason i'm holding off, that and the next gen in video
connectivity (pciexpress) i'm sure they'll have something similar for
laptops that or the adaption that ATI was working on for replacable
video cards :o)



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