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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (59605)5/25/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke  Read Replies (2) of 1574854
 
RE: FPU speed

Mere speculation, but perhaps some hardware expert can comment. I have seen talk in the past about being able to overclock processors to a greater degree provided you did not exercise the FPU when doing so. I always thought it strange that the architecture linked the processing units such that the FPU broke at a significantly lower clock rate than the ALU.

Is is not possible that AMD are looking at clocking this baby at 1000 MHz and so have adjusted the balance here to make that (and more) easier? After all, MHz sells. Presumably the result would be screaming business performance and the FPU scores at 1000 MHz will presumably still be better than P6, where the max clock rate is apparently always going to be FPU constrained?
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