[TriLUG] Shopping for new laptop...

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Thu Jul 12 09:00:18 EDT 2007


On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Brian McCullough wrote:

> I was under the impression that AMD had a rather different memory
> architecture from Intel, substantially more efficient, including (
> perhaps ) multiple paths to memory. ( dual-port memory? )

www.novell.com/collateral/4622016/4622016.pdf

says that the dual core opterons have no extra memory 
bandwidth than the single cores. I was at OLS about 2 weeks 
ago, and from what I heard, it's the same for all the 
multicore processors.

Joe

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