Anandtech ci offre un articolo molto bello Anandtech ci propone un articolo in cui vengono messi a confronto l'Athlon 64 e il Pentium 4. I test per quanto riguarda l'Athlon 64 sono stati eseguiti sia a 32-bit che a 64-bit.
Alcuni test a 64-bit mostrano incrementi quasi spaventosi, come in POV-Ray. Addirittura gli Athlon 64, grazie ai 64-bit, in lame 3.96.1 hanno incrementi nell'ordine dei dieci secondi!
We were extremely pleased to see the 64-bit applications generally perform better than their 32-bit counterparts. Unfortunately, there were still several cases where 64-bit binaries performed slower; John the Ripper and OpenSSL being two of those examples. Some software, like MEncoder 1.0pre5 proved difficult to install on SuSE 9.1 x86_64 as well. Sometimes the advantage of speed does not outweigh the advantage of software compatibility.Link all'articolo
