Author: Andrew Slough
Date: 19:10:04 08/31/99
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On August 31, 1999 at 21:28:48, Zachariah Amela wrote: >I'm not an Apple guy (well back in the olden-olden days), but I'm kind of >interested by the concept of a processor 100 to 200 times the speed of a Pent. >III. I don't know if their claim is true. Anyone have some input? > I think that's supposed to be 100-200% faster isn't it? I think you're right to be suspicious of benchmarketing though. I think the 100-200% comes from the G4 "Velocity Engine", which (AFAIK) is just SIMD single precision floating point. They claim a peak execution rate of 4 Gigaflops, compared to a 500Mhz P3's 2 Gigaflops. None of this is of any use for chess programs (or real world apps) though. > >W/ the AMD K7 and this new unit, where does this leave iNTEL and Sun? Just >curios on opinions. > >Thanks!
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