Replies to post #12670 on Intel Corp (INTC)

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Paul, Re: that's with Win2K, so it says nothing about 64bit performance.

What are you talking about? Here is what the measurement details say:

Intel® EM64T Performance
Benefits of Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technologyφ
Source: Intel Corporation, Data current as of August 2004

Intel® EM64T technology Extended Compute Capability
Linpack* performance

32-bit mode: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 4 GB DDR2 400, Redhat EL3 update 2 32b Linux and 32b Linpack binary
64-bit mode: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 8 GB DDR2 400, Redhat EL3 update 2 64b Linux and 64b Linpack binary

Intel® EM64T technology Increased Productivity
1) Maya* v6.0 performance

Baseline measurement: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 4 GB DDR2 400, Microsoft* Windows* XP Professional, SP1, build 2600, and Maya v6.0. Average of 5 rendering workloads
New platform measurement: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 8 GB DDR2 400, Microsoft* Windows* XP 64-bit Edition, SP1, v.1137 build 3790, and Maya v6.0. Average of 5 rendering workloads

2) Linux Kernael Build* performance

Baseline measurement: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 4 GB DDR2 400, Redhat* EL3 update 2 32b Linux and 32b Abaqus
New platform measurement: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 8 GB DDR2 400, Redhat* EL3 update 2 64b Linux and 32b Abaqus

3) Amber* performance

Baseline measurement: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 4 GB DDR2 400, Redhat* EL3 update 2 32b Linux and 32b Amber
New platform measurement: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 8 GB DDR2 400, Redhat* EL3 update 2 64b Linux and 64b Amber

Intel® EM64T technology with Hyper Threading technology
Maya* v6.0 performance

Baseline measurements: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 4 GB DDR2 400, Microsoft* Windows* XP Professional, build 2600, SP1 32b Maya 6.0
New platform measurements: Intel® Xeon™ processors 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in an Intel® PF400 Server Reference Board with Intel® E7520 chipset, 8 GB DDR2 400, Microsoft* Windows* XP 64-bit Edition, 32b Maya 6.0