Dear Tench:
Williamette will be slower clock for clock in high precision fp than Athlon. With one very broken pipeline against three high performance pipelines, it is acknowledged that Athlon has more fpu power but, possibly, ISSE2 may be able to even score. The Mustang fpu register flat file will improve the fp capabilities to RISC like levels leaving Willie in the dust. Sledgehammer, its 64 bit extensions, and dual core will probably exceed HP's PA-RISC at the time and since HP says even McKinley will not touch it's RISC, McKinley is toast. There is not even a ghost of a chance that Willie could beat Sledgehammer in fp and even integer may be out of reach. Intel's demos of high speed seem not to be able to be realized even after 18 months. It still has not gotten Merced out, Willie seems to be slow, and McKinley is nothing but rumors. There already is some K75s that have reached 1.1GHz (see Moldyn, QMC scores) and 1.4GHz (133 x 10.5) Tbirds are demoed awaiting, per rumour, only for 133MHz motherboards which, Ali says could arrive August or September this year.
Pete |
