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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 208.04+0.2%2:58 PM EST
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To: fyodor_ who wrote (20509)11/25/2000 6:32:09 PM
From: hmalyRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
fyodor Re..But not even you are blind enough to think that the P3 is a better PROCESSOR than the P4.

If you are talking about a 6 yr. old design against a brand spanking new P4, yes the P4 is a better processor. But, the PII and then PIII were monsters when they were introduced. P4 doesn't inspire anyone except the adherents to someday one yr from now. Besides AMD is on a roll. Intel needed a chip with some wow to stop the momentum now; not a yr. from now.

Re Absolute performance matters, sure, but so does scalability etc. etc. And the P4 will scale a heck of a lot better from 1.5GHz than the P3 will from 1GHz, even you know that ;)

Scalability without performance will be useless. Balance also counts. Just ask Scumbria on that. Add to that ,Intel has been boasting about 3ghz double pumped cpu with a trace cache,20 stage pipeline etc. but in the end the chip doesn't perform any better than the PIII even with another 400 mhz, . What happened to all of those wiz bang features anyway.

Add to that the new features of the P4 that, when supported, can increase the performance significantly.

The problem with that statement is that AMD will also have compatibility with some portions of SSE2, by then; so the applications will also help AMD. If Dirk was right at the Nov. CC; and the Hammer performance is 3X T-bird, P4 would have to scale up to 4.5 ghz just to beat it on performance. Not impossible but unlikely by 2002.
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