P4 not much better than P3 - Intel
No surprises there then
By our correspondent , 29 March 2001
INTEL IS ENGAGED in a major propaganda offensive over claims by UK heavyweight PC mags that the P4 is an overpriced irrelevance, that fails to perform any better than well set up (and hugely cheaper) Athlon, not to mention a nice Pentium III.
Intel engineers have tipped up at magazines' premises brandishing disks that show why P4 is actually quite a nippy little performer after all, especially if you're into streaming video, playing MP3s, 3D modelling and video editing - preferably all at once.
"Traditional benchmarks only do one thing at once, so you're not using the full width of the pipe", claimed an Intel engineer. "The breadth of the pipe in the P4 means it should be tested in situations more like those in the real world where the user would likely have three or four applications running at once - as well as applications running in the background, like, say, a virus checker."
The engineer then handed out testing disks that show the P4 'more realistic' light.
Pushed to suggest what sort of rough percentage increase in performance in multimedia operations the user could expect to perceive between the P3 and the P4, the enginzilla replied, "Er, marginal." µ
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