Was checking out Anandtech's review of the Public beta for Windows XP 64 and found these results very promising
considering this is an early beta and drivers are no where near complete. The media encoding performance was up by 15% which is quite amazing considering it was a 32 bit encoding and un-optimized for 64 bit execution. If you look down a little further you see that the gaming benchmarks are a disappointment but games are very dependant on video drivers. The video drivers they used were 4 months old, so I expect within several months it will be on par or outdo 32 bit XP.
This boads well for the 64 bit argument in my mind, I am no AMD fan-boy considering I have a p4 3 Ghz , a dual Xeon 3ghz and a laptop with a P4 3Ghz. I really am hoping AMD does well to keep Intel in check and Intel seems to think it can dictate to the market when and when not it needs things .ie 64 bit computing "the market has no need for it yet"
and the Rambus debacle where it tried to cause everybody to change memory standards. I like inovation and AMD keeps intel on their toes!
Now Intel is set to announce a 64 bit CPU
when clearly 6 months ago it had no intention of releasing a desktop 64bit processor. Because that would essentially kill off the Itanium that they are trying to get big tin buyers to buy into which they are not having much luck with since it has to run 32bit apps
in immulation mode.
Go little AMD.
considering this is an early beta and drivers are no where near complete. The media encoding performance was up by 15% which is quite amazing considering it was a 32 bit encoding and un-optimized for 64 bit execution. If you look down a little further you see that the gaming benchmarks are a disappointment but games are very dependant on video drivers. The video drivers they used were 4 months old, so I expect within several months it will be on par or outdo 32 bit XP.
This boads well for the 64 bit argument in my mind, I am no AMD fan-boy considering I have a p4 3 Ghz , a dual Xeon 3ghz and a laptop with a P4 3Ghz. I really am hoping AMD does well to keep Intel in check and Intel seems to think it can dictate to the market when and when not it needs things .ie 64 bit computing "the market has no need for it yet"
and the Rambus debacle where it tried to cause everybody to change memory standards. I like inovation and AMD keeps intel on their toes!
Now Intel is set to announce a 64 bit CPU
when clearly 6 months ago it had no intention of releasing a desktop 64bit processor. Because that would essentially kill off the Itanium that they are trying to get big tin buyers to buy into which they are not having much luck with since it has to run 32bit apps
in immulation mode.
Go little AMD.