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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 231.83+1.7%Jan 16 9:30 AM EST

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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (51260)8/15/2001 4:43:35 PM
From: PetzRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
There's good and bad news for AMD in those Anandtech benchmark comparisons of the
Intel i850 RDRAM chipset
VIA P4X266 DDR chipset
Intel i845 SDRAM chipset

The good news is that i845 sucks on everything. In stuff like Microsoft Office, where P4 is already 30% slower than Athlon, the i850 is only a little ahead. But in all the standard "strongpoints" of the P4, P4/i845 is much slower.

In other words, as I suspected, the P4/i845 combination at 2 GHz will be much slower than a 1.33 GHz Athlon in just about everything.

The bad news, is that VIA's P4X266 is much closer to i850 performance than it is to i845 performance. Unless Intel really messes up on DDR support in the i845, a DDR/i845/P4 combination will be close to i850 performance, with a much lower platform cost.

petz
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