Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, James Cornell wrote: >> clocked Opteron to a lower clock Intel, both Dual Core. From my >> findings, despite being a faster clock, the Intel beats the AMD in >> most tests. > > This may depend on memory configuration. Opteron is "NUMA" and wants > to have its memory "balanced". Some memory configurations are faster > than others. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > Both systems are using 2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 (667). 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 T7700, 2.6GHz AMD Opteron 1218. Both are using ECC capable memory as far as I know, though scrubbing on my workstation has been set to 8 hours. (Super mode) My notebook is a MacBook Pro so there's no place to configure ECC. I believe the system bus speed is what makes the difference.
James
