Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

[Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>]

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On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote:
> I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating
> AMD in performance tests.  Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much
> faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower.  What do you guys
> think?
> 
> - Grant

I work at the German Aerospace Center (basically the German NASA). We've
been using AMD CPUs for a long time on our clusters and workstations
because they were not only cheaper but also faster on floating point
operations whereas Intel was faster on integer operations. Now we are
switching to Intel because AMD lost this advantage and has problems
delivering the ordered number of CPUs.
I personally stick with AMD because they have a factory in Germany and I
don't want Intel to rule the market as they've done before AMD came up
with the Athlon XP.

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