AMD Dual Core CPU's & HT Tech
Sasha Tsykin
stsykin at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 09:58:33 UTC 2006
ruscook wrote:
>
>> and no frequency downgrade to cope with eat issues. Also, you can run
>> them in 64-bit, gaining approxiamtely double the speed (I know not
>> actually, but things happen almost twice as fast in terms of real world
>> experience, which is the thing that counts).
>>
> Hi Sasha, I agree the AMD seem a superior chip at the moment but I
> don't think this last is true. The AMD chips perform as fast in 32 as
> 64 bit mode. It's my understanding that only expanded address space
> and 64bit specific instructions will benefit from 64 bit mode.
this is true. Of course, access to 64-bit instructions is possible for
almost every standard linux program now so the effect is that the extra
address space is utilised, resulting in an almost doubling of effective
speed.
>
> Kind Regards Russell
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>
Sasha
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