Intel's high end Pentium 4 cpus appear to number crunch slightly faster
than AMD cpus (not including their 64-bit server cpus), but far too much
of the performance depends on the application being run. The Intel
technology seems to lean more towards the precision side of things,
while AMD's processors nifty tricks to increase performance. Intel
appears to be faster for applications; AMD for games. Historically,
Adobe applications work better with intel processors, but the difference
is minor. I would guess that Adobe optimized their software for Intel's
proprietary technology (ie, SSE2, etc etc)(Had an agreement maybe?) and
not for AMD's technology.
Daniel Tan
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: Monday, 5 April 2004 11:00
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Processor advice for handling OM images
A number of years ago AMD processors were on a par with Intel with
respect to integer performance. However, they always lagged a bit on
floating point operations. I don't think that's true anymore and the
latest AMD 64-bit processors have the potential for eating Intel's
lunch... although for their architecture rather than performance.
I haven't owned an Intel processor since the 286. My AMD's run just
fine.
ps: I'm still at 1.3GHz. When it comes to CPU's and most other techie
things I try to stay away from the bleeding edge.
Chuck Norcutt
BllPear@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Adobe as always recommended their software be used only with Pentium
processors. Probably just CYA, but could this make a difference?
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