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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (30883)	9/27/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Ten, were those applications that RDRAM was tested with actually written to take advantage of the performance gains possible with RDRAM? If not, then it might be like saying that the 486 actually runs slower with Win95 vs Win3.0. I mean, we would expect that, wouldn't we? No and No. It is, of course, possible to write a program (specifically, a 3D game/demo) that performs much better (30%) with Rambus. That's the demo that Intel showed at IDF. However, this does not prove that Rambus is useful. It just proves that you can write an artificial benchmark that stresses the memory by using AGP texturing and heavy CPU access at the same time.