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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 231.80+1.7%Jan 16 3:59 PM EST
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To: hmaly who wrote (77850)4/21/2002 10:38:41 AM
From: combjellyRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
"Do you are any feel that Banias at 1.6 ghz with 1 mb of cache added to the PIII will outperform AMD's expected offerings at that time"

It depends on what changes are made to the PIII core. First thing, getting information on the Banias core is a lot hit nailing Jello to a tree. First you hear one thing, and then there is another. The only thing we are more or less certain about is that Banias uses the P4 bus since they (supposedly) demo'd the chipset with a P4. if the only changes to the micro-architecture are doubling the cache line size (which they had to do for the P4 bus), a 1MByte L2 cache and the ability to shut down parts of the processor when idle (I presume this means more aggressively than they do now), then it isn't going to be all that impressive, unless your benchmark is a P4 at the same clock rate. Now if it has SSE2, then that could be an advantage.

As Van notes, the power consumption figures aren't all that impressive. An A4 is about the same speed and power consumption, albeit with a slower FSB and smaller L2. Now if I am not mistaken, the heatsink used on the pictured Banias on Van's site is a plastic one. An Athlon mobile XP may be faster and have the same power consumption. a Barton derivative will have close to the same total cache size, so the cache size won't make that much difference.
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