albert
re: because there is so much talk about p4's raw clock advantage over athlon.
This was because of what Jerry Sanders said about having a model 10,000 processor available whenever Intel releases a 10GHz processor. By your definition of performance, this is a rather short sighted comment.
It is also funny because as it stands now, Jerry could literally rig the benchmarks that control the Athlon performance rating to give him justification for any model rating he chooses. If Intel's 10GHz processor led AMD's model 10,000 processor by 200% in 99% of applications, what would stop Jerry from finding an application from the remaining 1% that gives him justification to say that his model 10,000 processor runs as fast as Intel's 10GHz processor?
Right now, Quantispeed seems innocent enough, and is even a little conservative, IMO. But as it stands, there is nothing in the way of altering it in the future to give AMD any advantage that they want. Knowing Jerry Sanders, when he says the kind of phrase like, "We'll have model 10,000 available by the time Intel has 10GHz," that may be by one means or another.
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