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Subject: Re: the empire strikes back

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 15:13:01 01/08/02

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On January 07, 2002 at 18:50:51, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On January 07, 2002 at 12:53:17, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>see the follwing web site
>>
>>http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1574&p=6
>>
>>i think these bench marks are roughly equivalent to chess performance of the
>>various processors. ( the old p4 willamette at 2.0 ghz is roughly equaivalent to
>>an athlon 1.33 both in terms of chess performance as well as in these office
>>productivity benchmarks) of note is the score of the new "Northwood 2.2 ghz. in
>>these bench marks seems to be running ahead of the amd 2000.perhpas may also
>>reflect the chess performance as well.
>>
>>also while intel has included several performance enhancing features-higher
>>cache, higher bus speeds(in the next few months) and smaller die size. amd has
>>none of these planned (except for the smaller die size)
>>
>>i'm afraid that amd may lose all the goodwill they have earned so far unless
>>they get their act together real soon
>>
>>any actual chess benchmarks will be appreciated
>>
>>rajen
>
>I do not think AMD has anything to be ashamed of! You will probably see them
>moving to 0.13 production this half year, and getting more speed and better
>production yield. And next we see the Hammer comming out. How it will stack up
>against the P4 at say 4Ghz is something only the fututre can tell.
>Anyway, I think its far to early to count out AMD.
>
>Torstein

lets hope that happens before its too late. amd should have at least doubled the
level 2 cache. that alone would have given at least a 1, maybe 2 speed increase
in performance as it has done for intel.

rajen



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