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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (70607)9/1/1999 3:09:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1575806
 
<AltiVec in a RISC architecture is MUCH more powerful than SSE or 3DNOW in a x86 design. So for some/many applications, it could easily be faster than PIII or Athlon.>

There's no doubt about that. The Velocity engine (formerly known as AltiVec) is more powerful than SSE or 3DNow.

The only problem I have is with Steve Jobs, who is spreading propaganda and feeding off of the cult-like mentality of Mac fanatics. To those guys, credibility is not a burden that Steve must deal with, but the rest of us may feel differently. So while PowerPC G4 may indeed be faster than the fastest Pentium III or Athlon out there, we definitely can't take Steve's word on it.

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