Subject: Re: Performance Question - AMD Opteron 240 64 Bit
From: AthlonRob
Date: 28/09/2003, 03:36
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:32:14 +0100, Adam <please@dontspam.me.uk> wrote:
You must be looking at the wrong benchmarks or wrong reviews. A 1.8GHz
Opteron processes a WU somewhere in the range of a Thoroughbred based
AthlonXP running at 2.3GHz 

Old reviews, definitely... from back right around the release of the 
Opteron.

I wonder if 3.08 addressed this or what?  I definitely recall reading 
per-clock, the Opteron running slower than the Athlon XP on S@H.

Oh well.  :-)

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