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Subject: Re: So is the 10Ghz AMD

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:18:28 09/03/01

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On September 03, 2001 at 18:56:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 03, 2001 at 18:16:17, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>www.aceshardware.com to see DIEP tested at both a dual Xeon P4 1.7Ghz
>and a dual 1.2MP.
>
>I know you hardly believe anything, but if someone else writes it
>perhaps it's true?

What kind of crap is this? I never, ever said that the P4 was good at running
Diep. I was responding to your comment:

>A 1.2Ghz K7 MP outperforms a 2Ghz P4 right now at nearly
>every aspect, that says quite something...

Since when is Diep "nearly every aspect" of a microprocessor's performance? I
just checked the Ace's Hardware article that you were referring to, and in
several of those benchmarks, the 1.7GHz Dual P4 outperforms the 1.2GHz Dual K7.
Moreover, doing linear scaling to get the 1.7's numbers up to 2GHz, the P4 wins
several more of the benchmarks, even the Diep one (!!).

>Don't tell me a word on the P4 it's a shit processor in all respects,
>of course in some testsets it profits from RDRAM having a bigger
>bandwidth. That's videogames with streaming data (profitting from
>the rdram), not integer performance or floating point performance.

Sure, so if the AMD wins, it's because it's a better chip. And if the P4 wins,
it's because it's a shit chip being propped up by some other aspect of the
system. You keep telling yourself that.

-Tom



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