Scumbria, try this from Ace's Hardware, well known as a shill for Intel's optimized benchmarks :)
"The burning question is of course: how will the P4 do? Well, it is a very impressive architecture, due to the very efficient trace cache and the double clocked ALU's. I suspect that the Bert McComas, who has reported up to 25% lower clock for clock performance has tested on beta silicon with a beta chipset. In my humble opinion, the P4 should be clock for clock as fast as the P6. Believe it or not, but is pretty likely that the P4 has a better FPU than the P6!! Why? The P4 offers much more bandwidth via the L2-cache and the 400 MHz FSB than the P6 does. And do not forget it has a seperate FP Store/move unit, which the PIII has not." Oh yeah, he has this to add:
"What follows is my speculation only. In most applications, the P4 should perform, clock for clock, equal or maybe even slightly better than the New Athlon."
Scary, huh? Good grief if he's right then you're wrong.
Good investing,
Burt |
