Replies to post #5658 on AMD strictly moderated (AMD)

[wbmw]

Re: I think that counts as standing on your head and squinting real hard:-)

Right, and it's the only benchmark that's really important anyway :-)

[pgerassi]

Dear Alan81:

If Sun did so well on Art (+203%), then people should complain on how Intel did so well on Sixtrack (+156%) and Mesa (+137%). Sun did better with Swim (+259%) than Art. Sun's Opteron 2218 wins in 10 benchmarks to Dell's Cloverton x5355 wins in 4 benchmarks. Dell always could use Sun's Solaris and Studio for their submissions instead of MSFT x64 XP and Intel's icc and ifc.

Intel uses tweaks to the way it handles flags for SPEC. Thats why base = peak compared to the action of any other compilers. It qualifies as doing an iron cross and trying to cross your eyes.

Quit whining about what Sun did. AMD has operated under a compiler disadvantage almost all its life. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, all this bellyaching comes to the fore. Face it, Opteron 2218 beat Cloverton on a lower clock (2.6 vs 2.67) and half the cores on 10 of the 14 SPECfp_rate2000 benchmarks.

Pete