New AMD Bulldozer for Parallel Computing with R

Fri, Mar 23, 2012 4:14 AM

Dear R enthusiasts,

i`m planning to set up a new PC and consider to buy an AMD FX-8120. For 
my estimations (with floating-point data) I use the genoud optimizer in 
the package rgenoud which (at least I think) would be able to handle the 
8 cores. Is anybody using the AMD proc for computing with R and could 
tell about the performance? What scares me a bit to just buy it are the 
huge amount of benchmarks on the net which tell that AMD has really bad 
performance ( especially for single-threaded apps). Would the Intel I7 
2600 be the better alternative? All the Intel 6-core processors are out 
of budget for me.

Best regards,

Andreas Recktenwald

Dipl.-Kfm. Andreas Recktenwald



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