How does the performance of Dragon NaturallySpeaking run with an AMD Athlon II processor compare with its performance run with an Intel processor with equivalent specifications (cache, number of cores, clock speed)?  Is there any reason to believe NaturallySpeaking will run "better" with an Intel processor?

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Todd Kermit
Principal
SpeechWise
todd@speechwise.com
www.speechwise.com

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 Legal, Lenovo ThinkPad T520, Intel Core I7 2860QM (2.5 GHz, 8 MB L3 cache), 6 GB DDR3 RAM (1333 MHz), Windows 7 64-bit, Plantronics CS55/Buddy USB Adapter

Todd,

In general, if you compare equivalent AMD and Intel processors in a side-by-side test of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, particularly DNS 11.5 but less so with DNS 10.1 and below, the Intel processors will generally perform better. Note that I say generally. I only say this because in my comparisons AMD processors tend to come up short on the performance end. By the same token, I'm talking performance, not accuracy. Accuracy will not very whether you're using an AMD processor or an Intel processor because accuracy is not processor dependent. I'm talking about performance. That is, how fast and how efficiently DNS performs under the above comparison. In general, Intel wins the race in a side-by-side compares of equivalent processors, RAM, etc.

Chuck Runquist
Technical Project Manager
VoiceTeach LLC
Home of VoicePower®: We don't make Dragon NaturallySpeaking, We make it better!

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