Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:24:45 03/26/02
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On March 26, 2002 at 14:29:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >If a 64 bits processor isn't faster than a 32 bits processor the processor >is nothing more than a bad joke of course. Why is that? You might as well say any processor that's not the fastest in the world is a bad joke. I don't see why the datapath width matters. And you're saying "faster" now instead of "clocked higher." If you want to talk faster, the POWER4 posts higher SPECint numbers than all current 32-bit processors. >>No matter how hard you backpedal, you're not going to get out of your idiot >>statement that "not a single 64 bits processor is clocked *near* 32 bits >>processors." > >I'm very right here. fastest 32 bits processor which i can buy is >clocked at 2.4Ghz now. Fastest 64 bits processor (let's not even >mention its insane price) is the power4 or something 1.3Ghz if >i remember well? You said "32 bits processors," not the fastest 32-bit processor. The POWER4, at 1.3GHz, is most certainly clocked *near* (your word) the 1.7GHz Athlon, which is a perfectly good 32-bit processor. -Tom
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