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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Process Boy who wrote (74231)10/6/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) of 1573044
 
Re: Next opportunity to see some Cumine spec numbers is at product launch...

Those spec scores for Coppermine look very good. They may also lay to rest the argument that bandwidth is much more important than latency.

The fp scores are a little suspicious - it will be interesting to see real world fp performance once Tom, Anand, etc. get a hold of a few test systems.

AMD and Intel seem to be almost switching places. If present trends continue, Intel will have a chip that, clock for clock, slightly outperforms AMD in integer, while AMD will have a chip that more substantially outperforms Intel in floating point. But AMDs chip appears to be designed to be easier to manufacture at high MHZ.

DDR266 isn't here yet, but all sources seem to agree that it is easier to manufacture than RDRAM 800 - but until that happens, we won't know.

Looks like we have a horse race! If AMD can make good on the 800 and higher near term rumors, it should do well. If Intel can produce its usual huge high speed high volume even with that large fast cache, it will do well. It's ironic that AMD used a large, fast cache to make up for an architectural disadvantage in the K6-III vs Pentium-III contest, now Intel is using the same strategy against Athlon. I guess the heavy lifting is falling on the Intel process guys to crank this thing out in volume at 800 and above. Good luck!

Dan
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