In other words you really have no clue how much faster it is, since 5GB (or whatever) memory is probably the most significant difference.
/ Martin Nilsson (har bott i google)
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2003-04-07 20:25: Subject: Re: First Opteron?
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:40:01AM +0200, David Hedbor @ Pike developers forum scribbled:
Well, I think I have added the first opteron to the build farm. :)
How does the beast work? :)
It seems to work fine. I haven't done a whole lot of stuff with it though. As a comparision it ran the 7.4 build in 6 minutes, while my Athlon 1.2 ran it in 24m. Of course, it's dual CPU so taken that in account it's still a more than 2x as fast (per CPU) since a large part of the compile isn't dual CPU friendly (most of the testsuite and configure). Of course, it also has less modules so that should be taken in account too I suppose.
The box is a dual 1.6 GHz Opteron with 6 GB of memory. It's unfortunately not mine (rather it's a review box that sits on a friends DSL line).
Anyone have any fun benchmarks to run on it?
/ David Hedbor