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#1 matt56la

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 09:12 PM

The question Is simple, Intel 64 vs AMD 64.

#2 theman

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 10:18 PM

Still hard to tell...but AMD were the first ones of course. Intel definitely has potential though, they'll catch up like they always do. But nope, AMD was first.

#3 BlueScreenOfDeath

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Posted 30 March 2005 - 01:16 PM

Right know I would definately give it to AMD because they came up with the first x86-64 bit instructions. All intel did was reverse engineer them ..so the P4 64's really have jus a backwards AMD64 instruction set.

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Posted 04 April 2005 - 04:06 PM

it doesnt matter who you vote for, intel reverse engineered AMD64

but if u go AMD its better in a way coz athlon64 has Hyper Transport wich owns intels FSB. it can also dual core much much better thanks to HTT.

#5 BeGiNnEr

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Posted 06 April 2005 - 12:15 AM

Definitely AMD IMO. :)

#6 istudio

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Posted 28 April 2005 - 05:12 PM

go AMD~

#7 AlphaAlien

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Posted 30 April 2005 - 09:35 AM

AMD64, but the reasons aren't as obvious as the first appear to be.

Yes EM64T is a sideways compatible copy of the AMD64 INSTRUCTION set
No EM64T does not have a fully 64bit native pipeline from end to end, don't believe me? Try using the LAME MP3 encoder for 64bit on it, it'll get held up on some legacy 32bit components in the pipeline and perform even slower than the 32bit edition.
No EM64T does not scale in servers due to having a memory bus bottleneck (theres companies working on this already but I'm under NDA :) )
No EM64T does not have a fast enough bus to feed it under higher end 64bit apps using exactally the same bus type intel's used since the introduction of the ram/cpu/hd relationship just at higher clock.

so, amd64 no brainer especially in server implementations since a xeon can not scale with memory. Nothing like an 8way xeon having exactally the same memory bandwidth between all 8 as a single xeon!




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