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To: Paul Engel who wrote (119176)	11/25/2000 3:45:49 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (2) of 186894

SSE2 or Floating Point? There are many types of calculations out there, where you can choose between a very precise Floating Point version and an approximate SSE2 version. Toms Hardware chose a DVD encoding benchmark for testing P4 against Athlon, and chose an SSE2 method to do this first, but after some external input he changed his mind to use Floating Point, because the results were better. There is no doubt, that SSE2 will be used for games and not-so-serious stuff, but in all the places where people are willing to pay $3000 for a computer, will people choose an SSE2 algorithm or floating point algorithm? If they choose the latter, they will buy AMD. Tom thinks that nobody can justify to buy a P4, because no market needs extreme SSE2 performance on an otherwise slow processor. Has anybody examples that shows he is wrong?

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