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To: kash johal who wrote (93262)2/15/2000 1:21:00 PM
From: Charles R  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572507
 
Kash,

<The register reports that only integer runs at full speed.

The FPU runs at half speed.>

This was well known for a while now. So, not a surprise. The only surprise to me would be if multi-threading works in the first version. So far I have not had anyone confirm that to me.

<Now if they double the number of fpu units they can get same effective thruput.>

I don't think it will. At any given MHz Athlon will have a better FPU and integer performance (excluding any multithreading benefits). Wilamette however may have some impressive SSE stuff. How it competes with what AMD has to offer will not be known until Q4.

The game is that of MHz and Wilamette's deeper pipeline should show some good benefits at 0.13.

Chuck



To: kash johal who wrote (93262)2/15/2000 1:37:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572507
 
Kash, <The register reports that only integer runs at full speed. The FPU runs at half speed.>

Where did you read that? Either The Register is wrong (no surprise), or you misinterpreted what The Register said.

I'm sure we'll get more details later.

Tenchusatsu


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