Tenchusatsu,
Funny how the same handful of apps (Quake and SQL Server) means absolutely nothing to the AMDroids who continue to ridicule Pentium 4 performance.
The difference is that with P4 faster on handful of apps, but slower on the vast majority of apps. If other processors that will be out when Clawhammer is released are much faster running 32bit code, you may have a point then.
Think about it. Those who criticize Pentium 4 because it shines only on optimized apps are also hypocritically praising x86-64 despite the fact that it not only needs recompiled apps (to show full performance), but also a new OS.
I think there is a difference between P4 choking on code (that runs fine on 99% of installed based of computers), and moving to the next generation of computing with 64 bit generation of chips. (which incidentally may be a little premature).
On the subject of optimization, don't you think it is a little presumptuous for Intel to go to the software community and ask them to recompile their apps just because Intel's P4 team f*cked up?
By the way, you have no idea how scalable Northwood will be.
My guess is that neither do you, and neither of us knows how scalable the Hammer family will be. What is your point? I think you should leave the FUD to Mr. Phud (Elmer) and his apprentice (Semiconeng).
We had no idea how scalable .18u P4 would be, and it looks like the clock speed scalability is slightly lower than expected, while the IPC is significantly lower than expected, yielding a processor that is basically a yawn, rather than something that would destroy AMD.
Joe |
