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Which core performs better on...

crabbyman

crabbyman

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I am now participation in the Folding@home program and it brought to light a question. I would like to know the answer and technical reasoning. I know someone knows it here.


Which processor is better or faster at doing such programs as folding@home? Say you have a Xp 2000+ and a P4 2.0..since they supposedly are about the same...

Thx!
 
Someone may correct me but I believe that the AMD's have better floating point and integer units.
 
Although this post probably belongs in the Distributed Computing forum, it also has enough merit IMHO to remain here. 🙂

Anyway, the Folding@Home cores seem to generally perform better on AMD Athlon XPs (as do many other purely number crunching applications). The Gromacs core can use SSE optimizations of the Pentium 4 to get better performance on that processor, but work units that utilize the Gromacs core are few and far between at this time.
 
I have never heard of Gromacs...haha

Yeah..I figured it was a combined question..not just a dis. computing.
 
you would get your answer in about 2 seconds in DC. We have spent tons of time benchmarking CPU's on the DC projects. Unfortunately, I do not have a info link handy. I am sure Smokeball or OK do though. they would be the ones to ask.
 
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