On 22/06/2011 06:40 PM, Warp wrote:

>    The official benchmark results are also interesting. It's incredible how
> much faster a Xeon W3580 is than a Pentium 4 (which is what I have) at the
> same clockrate, even when using just one core. While the latter takes about
> 25 minutes to render the benchmark, the former takes only a bit over 1 minute.
>
>    That's some *serious* speedup considering that they are running at the
> same clock rate.

It puzzles me how this is possible.

Sure, the Xeon probably has a much bigger cache and a slightly faster 
bus to the RAM chips. But is that *all* that makes it faster? Or is 
there more to it than that? I have no idea.

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