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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Epinephrine who wrote (120384)7/16/2000 10:25:05 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (2) of 1571413
 
Re: "2) That somehow the fact that Coppermine is competitive with the current manifestation of Athlon debases the K7 core's claim to architectural superiority"

The current CuMine is competitive with the current Athlon so there you have it.

Re: "As we both know the K7 core has a triple issue FPU whereas the P6 core has a double issue FPU"

Hence the Athlon advantage on legacy code. However as the SPECFP2000 scores show, it doesn't produce superior performance for optimized code. And while we're speaking of optimized code and future code, the two processors will likely use their SSE instructions to perform FP operations and there K7 has no architectural advantage.

Re: "This is just one of the architectural points that makes the K7 core undebateably faster and more efficient by design (read superior) than the P6 core"

Undebatably faster? The benchmarks say it isn't any faster at all. Undebatable yes, faster no.

EP
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