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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 222.10+0.5%11:34 AM EST
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To: Scot who wrote (20012)11/21/2000 11:41:42 AM
From: Daniel Schuh of 275872
 
Maybe, but another explanation is that Quake is memory bandwidth bound, and that's the one thing the P4 platform is indisputable good at right now. I think the explanation Johan De Gelas gave is a little more straightforward.

Bang! The Pentium 4 rules the Quake III World. Not really surprising, because the PIII-1000 runs Quake III almost as fast as a AMD's current champion. The fact is that Quake 3 is very bandwidth hungry, and combined with SSE-optimizations in NVIDIA's OpenGL drivers, you begin understand that superior bandwidth makes the Pentium 4 the ultimate Quake 3 processor. (http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=15000201)

I liked Johan's writeup, though I must confess to not having made it through the whole thing.

Cheers, Dan.
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