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To: fyodor_ who wrote (20292)	11/23/2000 9:40:42 AM
From: that_crazy_doug	Read Replies (2) of 275872

<< Sure, the benchmarks migrated in that direction, but I believe that has more to do with a real change in the programs users run. 3D games, MP3 decoding and now DVD / DivX / MPEG encoding. >> So now the question is what is the p4 good at, the answer is memory bandwidth and double precision floating point (with the correct optimizations). Are these 2 things going to overshadow everything else moving forward? (similar to how fp overshadowed int during the p5 -> p6 transition) The memory bandwidth issue will be less of a factor because AMD could always come up with a similar platform. I'm not sure how big the double precision floating point will be, but we'll find out.

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