MathGroup Archive: June 2001 [00267]

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Re: AMD vs. Intel Floating Point

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Subject: [mg29437] Re: AMD vs. Intel Floating Point
From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 05:35:52 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

a foolish question. An Athlon is typical faster in
floting point math than an Intel CPU. Only the
Itanium has better floting point performance.


Regards
  Jens

Kofi Anim-Appiah wrote:
> 
> Has anyone experienced any floating-point problems on systems using any of
> the AMD processors (Duron, Athlon, Thunderbird)? I'm considering buying a
> new processor and would like to know if the AMDs are as accurate with
> floating point math as the Pentiums
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kofi

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