The competition should be between the current performance king -the AMD Opteron- and the new Intel Xeon Woodcrest. Preliminary benchmarks show that the Woodcrest is faster than an Opteron 285, but we should wait until the new socket F Opteron shows up in a few weeks. The Intel Core 2 Duo is aimed to compete with the Athlon series. Regards.- -----Jean-Lin Pacherie <pacherie@genielog.fr> wrote: ----- To: Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net> From: Jean-Lin Pacherie <pacherie@genielog.fr> Date: 06/29/2006 04:22AM cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] SuSE AMD 64 bit supports Intel "Core 2 Duo" ? Selon Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>:

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 09:05 +0200, Michal Schulz wrote:

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He has asked about Core 2 Duo processors, which will support x86_64 (aka. EM64T) standard. My bad, my apologies. I didn't notice the "2" - didn't even know about it. Looks good, but it doesn't look much different from the Core Duo, EMT64 and the shared L2 cache aside.

Hans

As far as I read on web, the new "Core 2 Duo" introduces tremendous changes related to performance, heating and price. That's the reasons why I'm still waiting for the release. And if the promises and pre-benchmarks were too optimistic, then at least I will benefit from the new prices of the AMD processors :) I must say that I didn't see any comparison of the new Core 2 Duo with the Opteron dual core. Only x2 (including the FX-60) where used in the comparative benchmarks. What I heard about the new AM2 solution from AMD didn't need much attention i far as i understood. Again, I'm not hardware expert and all I know on the subject is from googleling around. So I might be wrong. Regards, Jean-Lin -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com