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To: Process Boy who wrote (98699)2/10/2000 3:26:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
PB, <Other numbers trotted out by Singer include Itanium's capacity to support up to 512-way multi-processor servers, and a 6.4Gflop performance rating. >

Notice that number, 6.4 GFlops? That's the theoretical maximum of a 1.6 GHz Pentium III or Athlon. And even then, those processors won't be able to match the real-world floating-point performance of an 800 MHz Itanium because of the inefficiencies of the x86 architecture.

Wasn't someone on the AMD thread saying that Itanium (Merced) would be behind Athlon at the time of its release?

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Maybe AMD should release their 1.6 GHz Athlon tomorrow. After all, we all know they're able to achieve it already, but AMD is just playing a "cat-n-mouse game" with Intel.

Tenchusatsu
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