Intel's Opteron competitor debuts Monday

Summary: The 64-bit squabble will heat up Monday when Intel comes out with its first 32/64-bit chip for workstations and servers.

By Dan Farber for Between the Lines | June 25, 2004 -- 11:37 GMT (04:37 PDT)

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intel The 64-bit squabble will heat up Monday when Intel comes out with its first 32/64-bit chip for workstations and servers.

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INTEL's AMD64 clone is slower in 64 bit mode

Anandtech.com has done a benchmark, comparing INTEL and AMD chips with themselves under 64 and 32 bit mode. INTEL CPU is 15-30% slower in 64 bit mode than 32 bit mode. AMD Opteron is 15-40% faster in 64 bit mode.

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30 July, 2005 21:00

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