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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (56078)9/23/2001 9:18:42 PM
From: fyodor_Read Replies (3) of 275872
 
Wanna: At IDF, Intel demonstrated a 30% performance increase in a popular rendering program by using Hyperthreading. Rendering has traditionally been Intel's weakness, but Hyperthreading will take it up and past the performance of the Athlon. It can also conceivably add performance to many other kinds of applications. And this is all without a new core.

With P4 optimizations, P4 2GHz roughly matches 1.4GHz Tbird and 1.2GHz Palomino in rendering complex scenes. HyperThreading would certainly give the P4 a clear lead, but only if P4 optimizations are in place as well and to the best of my knowledge, only Maya currently has these optimizations, but I wouldn't be surprised if 3D Studio and Lightwave (the other major competitors) are optimized within a year or so. Of course, won't help unless people upgrade ;-)

I'm very much looking forward to seeing the performance characteristics of HyperThreading. Which applications will benefit from it? From some of the things I've heard, it sounds like much of the front-end of the P4 might be doubled. This should allow quite a boost in many applications.

Regardless, I speculate that the main increase in performance will be in Workstation-type applications. I really don't see most server-apps benefitting all that much.

[oddly enough, this is the same segment where Itanium shines ;-)]

-fyo
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