Replies to post #2725 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[economaniac]

wbmw, re TPC, there is a thread at Aces that notes that TPC results heavily favor Itanium cause the Itanium version of SQL server was compiled with a much more recent (faster) compiler than the 32 bit version Opteron is running. Suggests that the x86-64 version will show big gains.

Clearly that is the weakest result. It is also the only result that didn't provide 2P benchmarks. Given the way Opteron scales relative to the Intel chips, it probably fairs even worse in the 2P comparison, so I suspect that is one bench they conveniently left out.

Still all in all, if AMD can deliver the chips and the software gets certified, the server market just got a whole lot more interesting.

By the way what maketh thee of the impact on share price?

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[yourbankruptcy]

wbmw, They achieve most of their gains in 32-bit, so I wonder how they are going to push developers towards moving their software for so little returns.

I was always saying that Hammer's 64-bit is a bonus and good sale banner, but not a real goal.

There are at least two classes of applications where 64 bit will give a large return: database and encryption (most popular in a form of SSL web servers for e-commerce). That's enough for now.

If the salemystuff.com webmaster will find out that the performance grow 100% when replacing Xeon with Hammer, he gonna do that.