AM2, X2, Opteron, or Opteron Socket F?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:08 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> eh that's so not the case ;)

Can you expand upon that?

The NetBurst architecture had ALU and FPUs that were much slower per MHz
than the PPro-P3.  Slapping on SSE pipes is _not_ redesigning the FPU.

> what does a "true interconnect" buy you in the <= 4 CPU case?
> Or an IOMMU if all your moderate and high bandwidth IO is 64 bit
> capable?

Can you guarantee all your I/O is?


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