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Floating point Intel vs AMD

 
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Anyone did some experiment with precision of floating point calculation with respect to AMD vs Intel?.
I mean without using strictfp, how close the results computed by Intel and AMD processors. Are they exactly the same or differ?
Just to know ..
Prabu
 
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I think they should be the same. Both use the IEEE754 standard for single precision and double precision. Intel internally uses much more than 64 floating point digits though. However, AMD would probably have to as well to support intel's floating point instructions. You might want to read the respective manuals to both processors.
 
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