[asterisk-users] intel vs amd motherboards

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:32:04PM -0400, C F wrote:
> I have recently build 2 machines, one with an Intel Pentium Dual Core
> CPU, and one SATA HDD, and the other with a single AMD 64 bit CPU, and
> a RAID 1 w 2 SATA HDD. Both costed the same even though the AMD had 2
> HDDs. Here are the show translations from both:
> 
> Intel Dual Core machine:
> pbx*CLI> show translation
>         Translation times between formats (in milliseconds)
>          Source Format (Rows) Destination Format(Columns)
> 
>         g723   gsm  ulaw  alaw  g726 adpcm  slin lpc10  g729 speex  ilbc
>   g723     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -
>    gsm     -     -     2     2     2     2     1     5    17     -    17
>   ulaw     -     2     -     1     2     2     1     5    17     -    17
>   alaw     -     2     1     -     2     2     1     5    17     -    17
>   g726     -     2     2     2     -     2     1     5    17     -    17
>  adpcm     -     2     2     2     2     -     1     5    17     -    17
>   slin     -     1     1     1     1     1     -     4    16     -    16
>  lpc10     -     3     3     3     3     3     2     -    18     -    18
>   g729     -     4     4     4     4     4     3     7     -     -    19
>  speex     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -
>   ilbc     -     3     3     3     3     3     2     6    18     -     -
> 
> AMD 64 bit machine:
> pbx*CLI> show translation
>         Translation times between formats (in milliseconds)
>          Source Format (Rows) Destination Format(Columns)
> 
>         g723   gsm  ulaw  alaw  g726 adpcm  slin lpc10  g729 speex  ilbc
>   g723     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -
>    gsm     -     -     2     2     2     2     1     3    13     -    12
>   ulaw     -     3     -     1     2     2     1     3    13     -    12
>   alaw     -     3     1     -     2     2     1     3    13     -    12
>   g726     -     3     2     2     -     2     1     3    13     -    12
>  adpcm     -     3     2     2     2     -     1     3    13     -    12
>   slin     -     2     1     1     1     1     -     2    12     -    11
>  lpc10     -     3     2     2     2     2     1     -    13     -    12
>   g729     -     4     3     3     3     3     2     4     -     -    13
>  speex     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -
>   ilbc     -     4     3     3     3     3     2     4    14     -     -
> 
> 
> This shows that the AMD 64 bit is worth much more than just the price
> difference.

It shows that the AMD CPU performs better than each of the Intel CPUs
separately: each such translation is inherently a single task eprformed
by a single CPU. 

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