Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 13:34:55 07/08/03
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On July 08, 2003 at 16:16:00, Rajen Gupta wrote: >On July 08, 2003 at 15:37:39, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On July 08, 2003 at 15:18:55, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1304 >>> >>>looks like a tie with the pentium 3.2: hardly a pentium killer! my heart bleeds >>>for the poor opteron when intel releases a prescott! >> >>Please post the link to the page where the have the results of the chess program >>benchmarking that they did. > >they didn't: and i am talking of the chip's overall performance as most >end-users dont buy a chip for its chess performance only: (even on this forum of >die-hard computer chess fanatics its quite probable that there are more intel >based systems being used) if this so-called pentium killer does not measure up >(and i have a horrible feeling it won't), it will be the end of AMD as we know >it; for the last 2 yrs they have been telling us: > >"never mind the athlon; it is only stop gap; wait for the hammer; it is going >to smash intel;" and finally after endless delays it does show up it appears to >be almost geting a smashing itself! > >if AMD disappears, we will then be subject to intel's monopoly which will be a >horrible thing for us all: hence my disappointment with AMD: always too little >and too late! Once stuff gets optimized for the Opteron it'll be much faster, they've got a compiler in the works that increases performance quite a bit. Its foolish to base the performance of the chip off unoptimized applications. The P4 needs optimizations as well, otherwise it gets smoked by the Athlon in everything. Also, AMD does have a good selling point no matter what.. "64bit". Most people that walk into a store and ask a sales clerk will be like, "Whats the best thing to get?".. They'll respond, "This one has a 64bit cpu!!" or something similar. :)
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