JK
06-30-2003, 10:33 AM
It is SSE2 that helps some video programs. The soon to released Athlon 64
supports SSE2. It will also run 64 bit X86-64 code as well as standard X86
32 bit code. They can be run side by side using a 64 bit operating system.
The processor can run 32 bit code with standard Windows. With 64 bit code,
the performance of the Athlon 64 should really be awesome.
KBear wrote:
I plan to do alot of video work (mostly encoding) and want to upgrade my 700mhz TBird. I've been a supporter of AMD the underdog for quite some time now. However, my research on CPU benchmarks shows that the P4 (with its SSE) smokes even the Opteron when it comes to encoding. Please, please convince me that I should stay with AMD. Thanks.
supports SSE2. It will also run 64 bit X86-64 code as well as standard X86
32 bit code. They can be run side by side using a 64 bit operating system.
The processor can run 32 bit code with standard Windows. With 64 bit code,
the performance of the Athlon 64 should really be awesome.
KBear wrote:
I plan to do alot of video work (mostly encoding) and want to upgrade my 700mhz TBird. I've been a supporter of AMD the underdog for quite some time now. However, my research on CPU benchmarks shows that the P4 (with its SSE) smokes even the Opteron when it comes to encoding. Please, please convince me that I should stay with AMD. Thanks.