" While everyday " Internet and email" desktop performance of a 64-bit operating system may not be much different from that of a 32-bit platform, CPU- and memory-intensive applications see significantly enhanced performance. 3D gaming performance could suffer from not-yet-perfect Nvidia drivers ( there were two newer " unstable" versions of the Nvidia driver in Portage at the time of this writing) and 64-bit game binaries that are still experimental. 64-bit gaming is, after all, a new thing to PC game developers.
64-bit operating systems may not be practical for simple desktop use at this point, partially because of some of the hassles in setting them up, and partially because they offer little performance increase for most desktop applications. But the advantage of running a Web or email server is obvious when you look at the OpenSSL and MySQL results, assuming you use those technologies.
Sometimes the purpose of a benchmarking project is to show which squeaky wheels need the grease. This benchmarking project has shown that there´s still a long way to go for AMD64-specific optimizations in the GNU/Linux world."
La ils disent que les systemes 64 bits ne sont pas plus rapide que les 32bit pour les application normale ( bureautique, internet...). A aucun moment ils disent que c´est plus lent...