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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (76891)	10/25/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577883

Ali, I already said that 840 is going to be overkill for "real business productivity applications." I already said that running standard business apps on 840 was like trying to put out a candle with a firehose. <From the data presented above it is imperative to conclude that all your undergraduate ramblings about traffic streams hold no water what-so-ever.> Did you forget that the SYSMark98 is a combination of the scores from all the apps tested? Some apps in that benchmark are going to benefit more from memory bandwidth than others. For example, it's obvious that MS Word, MS Powerpoint, and Netscape isn't going to benefit at all from more memory bandwidth. I'm sure there are several other apps which aren't going to care as well. Yet in the final SYSMark score, these apps are going to HIDE the real improvements seen by the apps which do care about memory bandwidth. So a mere 2.5% improvement in the overall SYSmark score could mean that a quarter of the apps in the suite each experience a 10% improvement! Now that's a real improvement, equivalent to one processor speed grade. Tell me this, Ali. If all my "undergraduate ramblings about traffic streams hold no water what-so-ever," then why is AMD rumored to be working on a chipset with dual DDR channels? Those DDR channels are going to achieve a maximum bandwidth of 4.2 GB/sec. But to paraphrase your favorite colorful quote from Steve, "who gives a fsck if you can pull 4.2GB/s..." Right? So since you wrote such a scathing response to my "undergraduate ramblings," perhaps you'd also like to write a similar scathing response to your "heroes" at AMD working on that chipset, no? After all, it's obvious that a screwdriver like yourself knows more than the experts working both at AMD and at Intel, right? Tenchusatsu