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Subject: Re: Apple G4 CUBE

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 08:22:28 04/24/01

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On April 24, 2001 at 10:31:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>
>So on paper the g4 can be at most 25% faster as K7, despite that
>it has smaller caches!

The tests that were run comparing TSCP performance on many cpus showed that
clock speed was a good measure of performance when comparing the G4 and the
Athlon.  So currently, the best Athlon goes about 2x the best G4.

>
>Now a dual G4 is clocked at most at 533Mhz, and i cannot do a THING with
>those 128 bits registers for the velocity engine.
>

Why not?  Is it because you use 32-bit words, and some redesign would be
necessary?  Have you tried it?

Will



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