32bit and 64bit

[aeshaynes]

Can someone please once and for all make it clear what the differences are and which one is better!

 

Thanks!

[79wjd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IknbgnJLSRY

 

Basically, 64 bit is better if you need more than 4gb of ram 

[Aniallation]

Can someone please once and for all make it clear what the differences are and which one is better!

 

Thanks!

In the recent threads was literally just an article about this that was posted 5 minutes ago

[aeshaynes]

Thanks

[Clyne]

32 bit: 4GB of ram or less

64 bit: 4gb of ram or more 

I guess you would go for 64 bit for gaming, 32 bit for basic stuff like internet browsing, watching videos, typing word documents.

[Rorgash]

im waiting for 128bit...

[Enderman]

im waiting for 128bit...

im waiting for 64 gigaBYTE

[Ciccioo]

32 bit for basic stuff like internet browsing

browsing ---> chrome ---> all the memory

there is no room for 4gb of ram anymore (which is actually just 3gb iirc)

[ForsakenLive]

While the video's points are all true, this not necessarily means it will be no performance gain. What Linus didn't let all that clear is what a 64 bits processor can achieve, and that is being able to work with a "word longitude" of 64 bits, which means that with a better encoding and with software meant specially to work on 64 bits, it can process data twice as long, completing a task much faster.

However as he said, there is a lot holding as back, from compilers and APIs (not talking about graphic APIs) to our OSs, that still are developed for 32 Bits, making the jump to 64 pretty much a matter of memory. On an ideal world, we would move all our processes to 64 bits, and make all the CPU instructions to work with such big amount of bits.

 

There are specialized pieces of software and OSs that bring the benefits of 64 bits, and even for 128 bit processors, but only used in servers and mainframes, nothing aimed at consumers.

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