Floating Point Operations & AMD

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I am upgrading a computer for my brother who is a day trader. He runs
6 -21" LCD monitors off of 2 quad graphic boards (AppianX). Current PC is P4
2.4. Likely reusing the video cards, was planning on an Athlon 64 3400+.
My only performance concern is his use is only 2D graphics (and lots of it)
and with the display calculations, heavily depends on the FLOPS part of the
processor. I know AMD is not as strong as Intel in this regard, but does
anyone know how much the difference is?

Thanks!

 

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Keith B. Silverman wrote:
> I am upgrading a computer for my brother who is a day trader. He runs
> 6 -21" LCD monitors off of 2 quad graphic boards (AppianX). Current PC is P4
> 2.4. Likely reusing the video cards, was planning on an Athlon 64 3400+.
> My only performance concern is his use is only 2D graphics (and lots of it)
> and with the display calculations, heavily depends on the FLOPS part of the
> processor. I know AMD is not as strong as Intel in this regard, but does
> anyone know how much the difference is?
>
> Thanks!
>
>

AMD wins out... by a large margin

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