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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (120399)7/17/2000 11:14:27 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1571159
 
Cirrus,

There tends to be very little difference in clock for clock performance between different x86 implementations. This is because everyone is limited largely by memory latency. The memory subsystem consists of four main components:

1. L1 cache
2. L2 cache
3. DRAM
4. Virtual memory on disk

Athlon does better than PIII on #1 and #3. PIII does better on #2. #4 is independent of CPU design.

All the discussion of 6th vs. 7th generation architectures is fairly meaningless. Next year Intel will be emphasizing MHz (Willy), and AMD will be emphasizing CMP multiprocessing (Sledgehammer.)

My bets are on AMD.

Scumbria
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