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To: kash johal who wrote (93565)	2/16/2000 12:54:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1572336

kash - 1) We need some benchmarks. I hope we don't have to wait too long. 2) I'm pretty happy with the clockspeed on A-0 Si with absolutely no speedpath work yet (one of your conditions was if AMD can keep up MHz; we have a bet on this, so you know where I stand :-)) 3) We need some benchmarks. 4) We need some benchmarks. Oh, and we need some benchmarks. PB

To: kash johal who wrote (93565)	2/16/2000 1:14:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572336

Kash, <Doesn't compare to Athlon. x87 Latency is terrible. Fxch(?) no longer free.> I don't know what the implications are revolving around FXCH. But I can tell you that the Willamette guys are confident they'll smoke Athlon's floating-point performance. <The implication is that the l2 cache runs at 1/2 speed - similar to cumine. Will be a disadvantage to AThlons full speed l2 cache.> Do you know whether Athlon will have a full-speed L2 cache? Will Athlon also feature a full-sized back-side bus so that they can complete the transfer of an entire cacheline in one clock? Would it even matter, since latency is the bigger determiner of performance? <DRDRAM all the way. I don't need to say any more do i??> Intel's current stance is that RDRAM is excellent for workstations. Intel also believes that RDRAM will even be viable for the low-end market in 2001. (Case in point: Sony Playstation 2 uses RDRAM.) Therefore, Intel will continue to push Rambus for desktops and workstations. For servers, however, it seems customers overwhelmingly want DDR over RDRAM. Therefore, it's likely that Foster-based servers will start out on DDR. Tenchusatsu