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To: Road Walker who wrote (133440)4/26/2001 6:53:54 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
John,

Do you think that Otellini's comment, that Rambus would have a much more significant performance effect when the P4 is over 2 GHz, is reasonable? Could MHz be a factor in the memories performance?

As the clock speed increases, the need for high bandwidth memory increases. Without high bandwidth memory, the processor performance will flatten off rather quickly above 2GHz.

This means that above 2GHz, DDR or RDRAM is required to keep the same mediocre P4 performance scaling we have grown used to. Without it, P4 looks really bad.

If he was trying to create the impression that something magical happens to P4/RDRAM above 2GHz, that is absurd.

Scumbria
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