Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 15:34:46 01/07/02
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On January 07, 2002 at 16:00:58, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On January 07, 2002 at 12:53:17, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>i'm afraid that amd may lose all the goodwill they have earned so far unless >>they get their act together real soon > >Funny, I've been (and still am) thinking the same of Intel >for quite a while. > >The P4 is garbage from a technical point of view, and >their current Itaniums seem to be too, based on the benchmarks >we have seen so far. Their only hope is to keep pushing up >the clockspeed as high as they can, but the design has limits >*somewhere*, as the original P3 at 1.13Ghz showed (totall recall >due to instabily). > >When are they going to come with a _new_ CPU with a design >that is _better_ than that of the Pentium Pro? > >-- >GCP i would n't call the design as crap. although the p4 does far fewer instructions per cycle. this design is allegedly good for 10 ghz at least (some say 20ghz!)what we are commenting is whether this "crap processor" running at 2.2 ghz can calculate more chess moves per second than the fastest available athlon xp. i dont know the answer, but from past observations (based on the fritz and tiger marks posted by members of this forum) and comparing the relative values with the various benchmarks on hardware review sites i found that the best correlation is with the office productivity benchmarks. on that basis an old pentium4 correlated with and amd 1.33 this review shows a northwood at 2.2 overtaking an athlon 2000+(1.67ghz) we'll have to wait for actual chess benchmarks before we know the true answer. i too am an amd fan and hope that amd will come up trumps. rajen
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