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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 92.36-9.6%Nov 13 3:59 PM EST
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To: mishedlo who wrote (39122)4/2/2000 4:31:00 PM
From: jim kelley  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Re: Tom's Hardware

Any claim to objectivity on the part of Tom, has been dismissed by the publication of Sheri Garber's RDRAM forecast (.1% marketshare) without any critical discussion of the huge gap between her forecast and Dataquest and Insite's forecast of 60% marketshare.

By the way, I ran some Quake tests on my DELL twin 733MHZ processor 840 motherboard workstation with 512 MB of dual channel RAMBUS and it was very impressive.

It ran a single copy of Quake in 72 seconds. Processor loading was about 50%. With two copies of quake running the execution times on the demo's was still 72 seconds. I ran 5 copies of the quake demo without any apparent degradation in execution time. There seems to be no apparent memory interference. This times are about 10% better than those reported for the 820 single channel motherboard (80 seconds).

I believe that the tests that are currently being used to measure RDRAM speed improvements are not actually even stressing the RDRAM. As processor speeds move above 1 GHZ we can expect RDRAM to begin to make clear its superiority.
It should also be possible to tune software applications to take even more advantage of RDRAM versus DRAM.

:)
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