Replies to post #70559 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

I don't know any of these apps first hand, and this lower level I2 is doing better than I had guessed it would in this area.

I was surprised too. And the 1.5 GHz 4 MB I2 is priced
under $1k (compared to ~$4k for the 1.6 GHz 9 MB I2)
so for some apps IPF even comes out ahead of dualie
Opteron in price/performance at the system level.


Maybe one more question: Can I take it these apps are typically multi threaded?

Many of them are but the figures I gave are mostly on
a one socket to one socket basis. As the number of
MPUs/sockets used increased the IPF systems tested
advantage over DC Opteron went up.