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To: Epinephrine who wrote (93880)2/17/2000 3:20:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1571324
 
epinephrine,

Re:"betting on clock speed and SSE2"

You are ABSOLUTELY right on this.

Most business stuff doesn't care about FPU so willy will do real well.

They will look horrible without SSE2 optimization on games etc.

Also the dual channell RDRAM shoots them in both feet for most desktop solkutions.

regards,

Kash



To: Epinephrine who wrote (93880)2/17/2000 3:24:00 PM
From: Epinephrine  Respond to of 1571324
 
Oops, sorry I cut that quote off to short here is what I meant:

"AMD's Thunderbird should be able, to compete well with the Willamette clock for clock. That is unless, however, Intel makes sure support for the new ISSE2 instructions is superb."

Epinephrine



To: Epinephrine who wrote (93880)2/17/2000 3:24:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1571324
 
Epinephrine, <The article claims that on non SSE code the Athlon will still be superior (Clock for clock) in floating point. Or am I misreading that claim?>

I think everyone is underestimating Willamette's non-SSE floating-point performance (clock-for-clock). But with a lack of details, how are we supposed to know?

Tenchusatsu


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