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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (94214)2/19/2000 1:57:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (3) of 1570762
 
Ten,

I sure don't want to hear someone say this, "Oh look, Willamette at 1.5 GHz can hardly outperform an Athlon at 1.1 GHz!"

Willamette at 1.5 GHz will easily outperform Athlon at 1.1 GHz.

That didn't seem to be the theme during last year's MPF. I got the impression that long pipelines were looked down upon because of the overhead.

CPU architects tend to be notoriously dense about pipelines. Cyrix went out of business because of a short pipeline (remember PR ratings?). K6 never could match PII performance because of a short pipeline. PowerPC folks shot themselves in the foot by insisting on short pipelines. As long as the pipe can be kept full, the pipeline depth is meaningless to performance, other than the fact that it allows a higher clock rate.

Intel did the right thing with Willamette, and they will be the performance champions next year. No other CPU will match the integer performance of Willamette.

Scumbria
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