Re: Oracle 64-bit Intel Support

On 21 Nov 2005 02:11:12 -0800, mccmx_at_hotmail.com wrote:

>On the 9i and 10g download pages, I have seen references to the
>following 64-bit Intel architectures:
>
>x64,

I think this refers to both AMD and Intel Versions
>64-bit Itanium,

Itanium is a 64bit chip, not compatible with Intel Xeons
>x86-64,

I think this refers to both AMD and Intel Versions x86 chips (x86 basically means 'IBM-PC compatible'
>IA64,

Itanium
>Intel EM64T,

Intel
>AMD64, and

AMD64 was pioneered by AMD to allow both x86 (32bit) and 64 bit (I believe they call it 64bit extensions)
>Power

IBM (nothing to do with Intel or AMD), but should be 64bit

>
>Anyone know the difference between these chip architectures, and which
>ones are compatible with each other...? Or a link to a website that can
>help me out...

Any 32bit Oracle will run on any Intel/AMD chip... Intel/AMD are generally compatible with each other. EMT64 was supposed to be a rip off off AMD's design (but I am not sure)

If you're yet to decide which chip to go with, go with AMD and AMD64 download.. I'll leave the research up to you.. good sites are www.spec.org, www.sun.com/amd, www.amd.com, www.anandtech.com

Some folks in this group prefer Power offerings from Mac, but I couldn't find any benchmars showing Power on Mac to be faster then AMD chips
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