[lug] Really off topic

[Viggy]

That's right.  I couldn't remember who did what better.  Intel has
always kicked butt with respect to FP computations; while AMD kicked
butt at integer computations.  This is why games seem to run faster on
AMD.  Games are usually very integer intensive (since FP numbers are
subject to "binary representation and roundoff").

Fourier transforms are very FP intensive.  As far as everyday work, I
don't think that the numeric portion of the processor matters all that
much.  Cache, and memory addressing do.

Viggy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Ferdinand P. Schmid
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 10:35 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Really off topic
> 
> 
> Wasn't there a time when AMD processors were slow with floating point
> operations.  I seem to remember that maybe with the K6-3, but 
> definitely with
> the Athelon they resolved this issue.  Intel CPU's have always been very
> focused on floating point operations, which helps with FFT but 
> doesn't really
> matter for everyday work in regular desktop apps.
> 
> Ferdinand