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Re: Comparison of Mathematica on Various Computers

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• Subject: [mg64299] Re: [mg64287] Comparison of Mathematica on Various Computers
• From: "fizzy" <fizzycist at knology.net>
• Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:13:36 -0500 (EST)
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Can someone explain why AMD does so well on this test and Pentium does so 
poorly by comparison??
I am planning to buy a new  computer and these tests seem to indicate that a 
Mathematica user should buy an AMD machine.

thanks....Jerry Blimbaum

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "karl unterkofler" <karl.unterkofler at fhv.at>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg64299] [mg64287] Comparison of Mathematica on Various Computers


> ''Comparison of Mathematica on Various Computers''
> is now on <a href="http://smc.vnet.net/mathbench.html";>
> (or <a href="http://www2.staff.fh-vorarlberg.ac.at/~ku/karl/mma.html";>)
>
>
> Mathematica 5.x benchmark on 
> http://www2.staff.fh-vorarlberg.ac.at/~ku/karl/timings50.html
>
> New results for Mathematica 5.x:
>
> Pentium 4 XT ("Extreme Edition"), 3.2 GHz, 2GB, Win XP Pro
> Pentium 4 3.2 GHz 1 GB RAM, Win XP Pro
> Athlon Tunderbird, 1.2 GHz, 1GB, Windows 2K, SP 4
> 3.0GHz Pentium IV, 512MB RAM, Windows XP Pro  SP2
> Powermac G5 dual 2.3GHz, 2GB, MacOSX 10.4.2 <br>
> AMD Sempron 2400+, @ 1.667 GHz, 256 MB, Madrake Linux 10.1
> HP Compaq dc7100, Intel 3.2Ghz, Windows XP Pro
> iBook G4 1.42GHZ, 512MB RAM, OSX 10.4.2
> 3.0GHz Pentium IV, 512MB RAM, Windows XP Pro SP2
> Sun Ultra 40 (TM) Workstation, 2xOpteron 254, 2.8 GHz, Sun Solaris x86 (64 
> bit)
>
>
> The test notebook for Mathematica 5.x is available at
> http://www2.staff.fh-vorarlberg.ac.at/~ku/karl/math/MMA5.0-Test.nb
>
>
> Karl Unterkofler
>
> 

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