RE: <"Look there are only three results posted..." KZ, was the following one of the three benchmarks that you are referring too?
Posted 02/05/99 10:00am by Mike Magee
K7 vs Pentium III benchmarks emerge...is it a hoax?>
No this was not one of them. This does look like a hoax since it claims to use K7 with Rambus. And an old hoax at that since it is dated May 2 (UK speak).
The three results are Tom's hardware posted in June, Dell Bell slides from IDF, and the very recent "got apex" results. Tom's result is very old and suspicious. Dell Bell is very weird that they would be presented at all, and "got apex" doesn't seem too solid either. So chill out.
In any case, you've only got 13 days before the world will be deluged with Intel results showing Rambus is faster than Sdram. Of course, these will be based on the fastest Rdram vs average or worse Sdrams and, more importantly, will handicap Sdrams by making them operate with the MTH kludge. The MTH kludge is guaranteed to make Rambus look faster because it will force Sdrams to observe the Rambus serial protocol. So to access Sdram the address will first get converted from parallel to serial by Camino, then converted from serial to parallel by MTH, then Sdram gets accessed, then the data is converted from parallel to serial by MTH, and then converted from serial to parallel by Camino. I'm very sure that with these handicaps there won't be any Intel benchmarks that show Sdram is faster.
On Sept 27 these results will be broadcast to the world by the powerful Intel/Rambus PR machine. This thread will go estatic. Unclewest will post each of the many benchmarks individually. The posting activity will break all records. The pseudo-tech press will pass on the results without question. Articles will begin "Contrary to reports, it has been confirmed that the innovative Rambus Rdram out performs the out-of-date Sdram."
EETimes will likely publish the real truth of the benchmarks but it will be lost in the shuffle. Bert McComas will also expose them but he will be dismissed as biased.
So relax and wait for Sept 27. |
