Posted on Thursday, August 11 2005 @ 3:11 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
As we have already written before, the appearance of dual core processors from both leading x86 CPU manufacturers has raised natural interest: how their performance correlates with "honest" SMP systems, where two equally-clocked cores are in separate processors? We have already analyzed the competition between Pentium XE 640 and Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz and drawn the evident conclusion: dual core processors are preferable in terms of performance, though that's most likely not due to the performance difference between the processors, but due to a more "conservative" platform. What's the situation in the AMD camp? Read more at Digit Life