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AMD 214.990.0%Dec 26 4:00 PM EST
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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (52664)8/27/2001 6:34:31 PM
From: fyodor_Read Replies (2) of 275872
 
Wanna: This makes the Athlon a great graphics workstation, if AMD can market it well as that, but consumer level 3D realtime rendering performs much better on the Pentium 4.

Well, that depends very much on the specifics. There are plenty of NEW games out there where the Athlon (1.4) beats the P4 (1.8). Additionally, virtually all the old games "consumers" still play would run better on the Athlon (but you could easily argue that performance on these games is already "high enough"). Additionally, the Athlon kicks P4 butt in AI benchmarks (searching, shortest path, chess etc.).

I honestly don't think I'm being unfair to either side when I say that a 1.4GHz Athlon is on par with a 1.8GHz P4 in terms of performance. With the 2GHz P4, however, Intel has moved into the (performance) lead.

While I haven't seen any direct benchmarks, extrapolation and other guesswork leads me to conclude that it would require a 1.5GHz Palomino to reach performance parity with the 2GHz P4.

Btw, do you know if Intel's "consumer" P4 on .13&#181 will have 512kB L2 cache as well? I suspect the P4 would benefit more from the added cache than the A4, thus allowing the P4 to partially close the IPC gap.

-fyo
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