Re: AMD vs. Intel Floating Point
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- Subject: [mg29460] Re: AMD vs. Intel Floating Point
- From: "Orestis Vantzos" <atelesforos at hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 04:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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In what sense is it foolish? Seti@home for instance, which relies heavily on floating point operations, does work slower on AMD chips... Orestis "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in message news:9gn7i2$ere$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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 >