I've also heard that the recent Xeon's have that "hyperthreading" feature... Supposedly makes threaded programs and heavy multitasking work better. I saw some benchmarks on a website that mentioned that for specific circumstances, with hyperthreading enabled, there was up to a 30% increase in performance on the same hardware as compared with no hyperthreading.
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 11:07, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A Xeon processor is optimized for matrix calculations, etc, like > you'd use in a CAD program... I have one here, at work, but I don't > have an equivalent PC to compare it with for other software. > > - -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: benefits of a Xeon? > > > Outside of SMP support are they any benefits of running a Xeon over a > vanilla P4? I remember once when Xeons had lots more cache then > normal > pentiums - but thats not so anymore. > > thnx, > ~Christopher > > > > - -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 > > iQA/AwUBPf9LnNPjBkUEZx5AEQJzMgCgm3AOgH+ZSkahRvg+VI1rc1Lu7HQAoO61 > ib6T6T21fX/K1G5QwCGYFWpZ > =fNW6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
