Re: AMD vs. Intel Floating Point
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- 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
- References: <9gcman$364$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
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