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Subject: Re: crafty on Athlon 64

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 09:31:25 12/30/02

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On December 30, 2002 at 11:39:37, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>Details of the SPECint2000 :
>http://www.heise.de/ct/03/01/018/bild.gif
>
>Athlon64@1.2GHz : 868
>Pentium4@2.2Ghz : 850

I find 868 a very impressive score for a 1.2Ghz chip.

>Not bad, but no revolution, I thought it would be faster than that on a 64 bits
>machine ...

64 bits code on the athlon64 is slower than 32 bits code (assuming
you do not profit from the 64 bits). Of course
the wait is for better compilers also now to get the athlon64 shown
faster.

>The athlon would run at about 2 Ghz in april 2003

if a P4 with some new compiler for the athlon64 is at say 2.53Ghz
equal to a 1.2Ghz Athlon64 then that means:

  2.53 / 1.2 = 2.1 factor difference.

So the P4 is only equal to that when clocked at around 4.4Ghz

However, the P4 can only clock to 3.5ghz at most according to
laws from nature which says that higher clocked processors
in 0.13 need more power when clocked higher. Right now it is
already consuming 100+ watt at 3.06Ghz. So unless you use
liquid cooling it won't ever get to 3.5ghz at 0.13 micron technology.

In short that makes the athlon64 a killer cpu IMHO for the PC.




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