best processor for MATLAB: AMD or INTEL???
Gaston Schlotthauer
Matlab, taking into account the price/benefits rate.
With windows 2000 or XP as OS, what processor is more appropriated?
Pentium 4 (prescott, maybe?) or an AMD Athlon (athlon 64? ) . What do
you think? How about your experiences with different processors (and
mother boards).
Regards.
Étienne Labaume
> I would know your opinion about the best processors for running
> Matlab, taking into account the price/benefits rate.
> With windows 2000 or XP as OS, what processor is more appropriated?
> Pentium 4 (prescott, maybe?) or an AMD Athlon (athlon 64? ) . What do
> you think?
I don't think you will see any difference between 32-bit processors from
AMD and Intel. I don't even think the difference will be noticeable
between x86 and x86-64, except maybe if you manipulate objects of more
than 4GB.
--
Etienne
Duane Hanselman
The AMD Athlon processors have pretty much always had better numeric
coprocessors than Intel. I found this to be true with my last
computer, which had a Athlon 1900+.
The on the cpu memory controller on the AMD processors also speed
performance.
If you follow any of the tech websites, Intel and AMD processors are
matched head to head quite a bit. Try extremetech.com or
Tomshardware.com. The Intel cpus beat equivalent AMD cpus for mpeg
processing and that's about it. Most other measures have the AMD
ahead when it comes to number crunching.
I'd love to see bench.m results for a variety of machines.
Duane
James Abbey
...
> I'd love to see bench.m results for a variety of machines.
>
> Duane
I just completed the first set of experimental runs on the following
machines:
AMD 64 3200+ (1 gig of mem)
AMD Athlon XP Barton 3200+ (1 gig of mem)
Intel Pentium 4 Xeon 2.4Ghz (2 gigs of mem)
AMD 242 Opteron (1.6Ghz) (2 gigs of mem)
The AMD64 won in nearly everything and completely bested the
reference Pentium 4 3.0Ghz. The Athlon XP Barton won one benchmark
and also dominated the P4 3.0Ghz in nearly all the benchmarks.
Neither dual processor server came close to the desktops. However,
the Opteron always bested the Xeon, usually by more than 10%+. I
will have a full report with statisitcal analysis up within a month
at MISNews.com.
Rob Morse
you say that you have run the benchmark with a AMD 3200+ 64. Could
you tell me if you had to do anything special to get it to run? Mine
loads and then instantly bums out...
Cheers,
Rob
Will Dwinnell
> Gaston Schlotthauer wrote:
> >
> >
> > I would know your opinion about the best processors for running
> > Matlab, taking into account the price/benefits rate.
> > With windows 2000 or XP as OS, what processor is more appropriated?
> >
> > Pentium 4 (prescott, maybe?) or an AMD Athlon (athlon 64? ) . What
> > do
> > you think? How about your experiences with different processors
> > (and
> > mother boards).
> > Regards.
>
> The AMD Athlon processors have pretty much always had better numeric
> coprocessors than Intel. I found this to be true with my last
> computer, which had a Athlon 1900+.
>
> I'd love to see bench.m results for a variety of machines.
>
> Duane
This has been my experience with AMD vs. Intel as well. Here are the
results of bench(3) on an AMD FX-53 without overclocking:
Vendor: Velocity Micro
System: Vision FX A/V/D
Processor: AMD FX-53 (2.4 GHz)
RAM: 2048 MB
Graphics Card: 128MB ATI Radeon 9200
OS: Windows XP Professional, SP1
MATLAB Version: 7.0
0.3420 0.3280 0.2180 0.4510 0.3430 0.1870
0.3430 0.3270 0.2020 0.4680 0.2960 0.1870
0.3430 0.3270 0.2030 0.4520 0.2800 0.1870
-Will Dwinnell
http://will.dwinnell.com
robert xu
or a comparison for Matlab 6.5.
Roughly, under the test conditions
A64 3200+ S754=P4 3.4EE GHz=P4 3.4 C GHz
A64 3000+ S754>=P4 3.4 E GHz=P4 3.2 C GHz
A64 2800+ S754=P4 3.2 E GHz=P4 3.0 C GHz
Athlon XP 2500+=P4 3.0 E GHz=P4 2.8 C GHz
James Abbey
or patches. Odd that yours should die so suddenly.
Fredrik F
> Hi,
>
> you say that you have run the benchmark with a AMD 3200+ 64. Could
> you tell me if you had to do anything special to get it to run? Mine
> loads and then instantly bums out...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
Hi Rob,
Probably MATLAB tries to load the wrong version of the BLAS library.
Set the environment variable BLAS_VERSION to atlas_Athlon.dll and
restart matlab to check if that was the case.
Regards
Fredrik