Differences between AMD and Intel CPUs [was: Re: Dragonfly andHyperthreading....]

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Fri Mar 11 10:24:21 PST 2005


On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:25:47PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> I think that's a more the fault of Intel's memory architecture
> and not so much of PCI-X. Keep in mind that Intel doesn't use
> a point-to-point bus like AMD / DEC, so the CPU has to fight
> with the host-to-PCI bridge for the memory access. This is
> something which doesn't affect the CPU on AMD systems at all.

s/PCI-X/PCI/





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