From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jd7pL-0007BJ-8j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:48:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9457E079E; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from india533.server4you.de (india533.server4you.de [85.25.151.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9053DE079E for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.17] (pD95FF949.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.249.73]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by india533.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41BA7706AA for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:48:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47E54664.3050909@smash-net.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:48:20 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Norman_Rie=DF?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080229) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo? References: <49bf44f10803221007v27627160xa0b0daadc4bcc0ff@mail.gmail.com> <1206207537.30987.6.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> In-Reply-To: <1206207537.30987.6.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b1e7b7fb-d7b0-4039-bbac-d3acd7e1792d X-Archives-Hash: 9203625fc69d5e58fcf1f43fe447a805 Florian Philipp schrieb: > 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. > I can confirm that. The German Weather Service uses AMD CPU's on the servers for visualising weathercharts due to better FPU performance. The new bunch of servers however are intel systems. Norman -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list