Hi all, I wonder if anyone has benchmarked contemporary high-end desktop processors -- Athlon, Opteron and P4/Xeon basically -- for which is better to do Quartus II synthesis? -hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64
What CPU for Quartus II?
Started by ●September 15, 2003
Reply by ●September 15, 20032003-09-15
Hi Peter, I haven't formally benchmarked it, but for my Nios compiles with take about 80% of the memory and 50% of the LE's of the big Cyclone (so about 10k) the P4's seem to do well. What takes 25+ minutes on my 1GHz PIII takes less than 5 on my 3.2GHz P4 or even a 2.4GHz. One thing that seems true no matter the processor is the memory. QII needs lots of fast memory. I only have 500MB in these machines and it could clearly use more. Ken "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote in message news:bk3kqu$mqi$1@cesium.transmeta.com...> Hi all, > > I wonder if anyone has benchmarked contemporary high-end desktop > processors -- Athlon, Opteron and P4/Xeon basically -- for which is > better to do Quartus II synthesis? > > -hpa > > -- > <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! > If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. > "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." > Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64