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 1JdLWY-0001zU-Pv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:25:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2CCFE04DA; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E361E04DA for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 4YKi1Z00L0cQ2SLA900h00; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:24:45 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([68.61.219.200]) by OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 4YRm1Z0014L0yh88W00000; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:25:47 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6tlgdXNX1uQA:10 a=NLPqsP7mjOs1NUVYvJgA:9 a=IdKmGtMp1UpNsAMS84gns_z9zfEA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 Message-ID: <47E6140A.7040808@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:25:46 -0400 From: Chris Walters User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 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> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10803221007v27627160xa0b0daadc4bcc0ff@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080322-0, 03/22/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: d4ad5a87-9636-4889-9f51-5096009fe04a X-Archives-Hash: 9dab8112cfcdfff46f954b2bfb0f6d39 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 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 Well, as others have pointed out, the speed you experience, as an end consumer has to do with every other component in your computer, in addition to the CPU. For example, the bus speed of the mainboard, the chipset, the size, speed and type of hard drives you have, and of course, the video hardware (including the interfaces to the mainboard. Lest I forget, it also depends a lot on the amount and speed of the RAM that you have in your system. As for the performance tests, they are not generally a very good measure of how well a processor will perform in the real world. AMD and Intel have been in competition for the #1 spot since AMD was formed, and for a long time AMD was ahead of Intel on a number of factors (performance and cost being two). Give it some time, and you'll see a turn around, IMHO. I can't be certain, since I haven't been keeping up with industry news, as I should, but I believe that AMD has always had the better engineers. Regards, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFH5hQGUx1jS/ORyCsRCkvpAKCLzX4d++WW+zW0tmeFkaD5OGzlFQCeI/Vq wzMuNgCY1AekTiok5d/44V0= =Xs2W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list