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To: Elmer who wrote (56757)	9/30/2001 3:12:33 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Elmer: Which brings up the point that what Athlon brought to the table was the potential for much higher frequencies. Remind you of anything? I think both sides in this discussion are being kind of silly. At the risk of joining that group&#133 Athlon had a huge IPC advantage over K6 in floating point performance. Athlon had a slight IPC advantage over K6 in integer point performance. P4 had a significant IPC disadvantage compared to PIII in both integer and floating point (x87) performance. Of course, none of this should matter. The only thing that should matter is absolute performance (i.e. IPC * frequency). Clearly, the P4 is better suited to deliver absolute performance. All the speculation about improvements that could have been made to PIII are irrelevant. The only two existing products are PIII and P4. I think one of the things that get some folks (on the "AMD side") all riled up about this is that frequency alone is often the only performance metric used by potential buyers. Clearly, it's a very poor metric, but you can't fault Intel for that. -fyo

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