Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 11:39:13 05/06/02
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On May 06, 2002 at 12:53:12, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On May 06, 2002 at 11:05:38, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>On May 06, 2002 at 10:45:21, Dan Andersson wrote: >> >>>Good for them. But with the current speed of Athlon XP we will have to see a >>>2.9GHz P4 before even considering a switch for chess programs and FEA. >>> >>>MvH Dan Andersson >> >>i doubt it. someone here had posted the tiger and fritz mark on a pentium 4 >>northwood, about 10 days back(i forget the name of the poster, perhaps if he >>reads this he can respond)and it was identical to the benchmarks which others >>had posted of an athlon xp at 1600MHZ. This means that a pentium4 2.4 would >>atleast run as fast as athlon xp 1.73(the fastest currently available) and a >>pentium 2.53 would woud run somewhere between an athlonxp 1.83-1.87 9probably >>the latter in view of a faster FSB, faster memory and the superior scaling of a >>P4 at higher speeds as compared to an athlon xp. >> >>I greatly fear that amd have taken their eye of the ball and will forever be >>playing catchup, one lap behind >> >>rajen > >That was me. My 2.2 Ghz P4 is also used for rendering video, a task at which it >blows the doors off any AMD processor so far, which is why I got it, rather than >an AMD. The 2 ELO increase I could expect from the AMD 2100+ system over mine >wasn't enough of an incentive to render video at 75% of the speed. That and the >fact that a similarly equipped AMD system from HP or Compaq would have cost 50% >more. 60% if I tried to put one together myself at the time. Gateway is giving >away their high-end models to try and raise market share, so I was happy to >help. > >kp Since when has a P4 blown the doors off a properly configured AthlonXP in anything, especially video encoding & raytracing? Email me. Name the test and we can compare results..
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