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To: kapkan4u who wrote (5790)	8/20/2000 7:22:55 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Kap, great find! So we have the first semi-official P4 "benchmarks" here. And it doesn't look good for P4: Those are all pluses. But Microdesign’s Glaskowsy says that while the chip will run faster than Intel’s Pentium III, it will not run software as efficiently as the PIII. “Pentium III is within 10% or 20% of the performance of Pentium 4,” he said. If we assume he meant a comparison 1.4 Ghz P4 vs. 1.1 Ghz P3 the P4 should be ca. 30% faster if it would be as "efficient" as the P3. But Glaskowsy says it's only 10-20% faster, so let's assume it's 15% faster overall. This would mean a 1.2 Ghz Thunderbird would be roughly as fast as a 1.4 P4! And keep in mind that the P4 has the "fast" Rambus memory vs. a Thunderbird with PC-133 SDRAM (and crappy VIA chipset). With DDR-RAM the Thunderbird would probably win in most benchmarks. If this all holds true Intel has really a problem (and I believe Glaskowsky is a very credible source). BTW, nice quote: “It’s designed for the Internet,” said Doug Carmean, the engineer who led the Pentium 4 chip design. Andreas

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