Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 13:44:26 01/21/02
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On January 21, 2002 at 16:29:28, Dan Andersson wrote: >Intel has been playing catchup since the introduction of the Athlon. The last >PIII core was on par with the 'stone age' tech classical Athlon. Using all the >cutting edge technologies at Intels disposal. Now they have parity. Not one to >one equality, but rather a tit for tat. >>"catch up", as the new design is from Intel, not from AMD, and while the P4 can >>be stretched a lot further in performance, the current AMD generation can't. >Well, thats correct. The opposite was true two weeks ago. The current Athlon >design won't scale much higher. XP 2200+ or so. But the currently sampling core >will. And that core and the coming one will be close to the top P4, barring >unforseen circumstances. And then the next generation will unfold. I am >constantly in awe of the AMD engineering staff. The CPU designs from the K6 and >forward are exquisit masterpieces. Not that the Intel engineers are bad. There >are lots of interesting designs. But they are arguably inelegant and wasteful. >IMO, the two major beauties of contemporary CPU designs are the K6 and the ARM. >If you are interested there is an absolutely beautiful book called: >'The Anatomy of a High-Performance Microprocessor: A Systems Perspective' by >Shriver and Smith. Its about the design of the K6 core. > >MvH Dan Andersson I own a PC with Athlon Tunderbird myself, and I'm pretty happy with it! But I think the latest P4 2.2Ghz is the most advanced processor to get at the moment. And take a look at http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020117/index.html this link where he easily overclocks the P4 to 3.1Ghz. And this is just the beginning..... So at the moment I think AMD has some catching up to do. Lets hope the Hammer live up to what we have been used to from AMD the last years. Torstein
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