[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was therefore not surprised to see the P4 do better
than the Athlon for the LL tests. But was a little
surprised to see the Athlon show considerably faster
times over every bit-depth of factoring, with the
higher the bit-depth the more the Athlon blew the P4
away.
v24 has many enhancements for factoing by 64-bit machines. Therefore the Athlon64
now >outshines the P4 in factoring.
The comparison was using v24.13, so shouldn't the P4, using EM64T (64-bit extensions),
"shine" in factoring too? Just a thought.
BTW, v24.13 is where the comparison was done and the benchmarks for both LL and Factoring showed what the differences in speed were.
the AMD processors have shorter pipelines and faster memory busses, this alone
could easily account for the difference. Intel tends to optimize special
cases, while the AMD cpus tend to be faster at overall work.
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