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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Herring who wrote (96606)3/3/2000 8:44:00 PM
From: Petz   of 1577488
 
Herring, re:<RAMBUS memory a challenge for AMD?>
The fact that Intel is continuing to hype RAMBUS is an opportunity, not a challenge, for AMD. Take a look at tomshardware.com, and the following pages which attempt to determine the best platform for 133 MHz bus PIII's.

The following benchmarks comparisons are between the VIA Apollo PRO 133A using cheap PC133 memory and and Intel i820 platform using 800 MHz expensive RAMBUS:

Sysmark 2000 Win98SE: tie
Quake 3: RAMBUS wins by 2%
Quake 2: RAMBUS wins by 1%
Unreal Tournament: RAMBUS wins by 2%
Expendable: RAMBUS wins by 2%
SPECviewperf (WIN98): RAMBUS wins by average of 10%

However, when we look at SPECviewperf under Windows NT at anandtech.com, we find the following:
SPECviewperf (NT 4.0): PC-133(VIA) wins 4/5 tests by average of 3%
RAMBUS wins 1 of 5 tests by 12%
ATHLON/PC-133 beats both Intel platforms by average of 6% in all five tests (2% to 10%)

The fact is, between these two reviews that compared PC-133 platforms (not even DDR, just plain old PC-133) with 800 MHz RAMBUS platforms, there is absolutely no reason anyone would buy the RAMBUS. In the only application that seemed to show some RAMBUS benefit, the benefit disappeared and was reversed when Windows NT was used.

I repeat, Intel's blind hyping of RAMBUS technology has only just begun to bite them.

Petz
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