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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (10099)	9/24/2000 3:16:03 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Crazy_Doug, Re: Nvidia will almost certainly have SSE2 optimization in their drivers, and that will improve all old applications too. How much improvement? [...] it might be enough to make it clock for clock better than a p3 even on a legacy game like quake 3. No, it won't. Nvidia has SSE2 optimizations since driver version 6.18 (Detonator 3) and some of the leaked benchmarks were done with these driver. While the Quake 3 scores weren't that bad (especially in lower resolutions) they were not spectacular either. And since Quake 3 is fillrate limited in higher resolutions it doesn't really matter how fast your CPU is. I think it's a very safe bet now that P4 will have good performance on optimized benchmarks/applications and extremely good memory performance while on legacy application (i.e. 99,9% of the software available right now) it will be an underperformer. Unless you believe in a big conspiracy theory (Intel delivers crippled samples to OEMs and hardware magazines and fakes his own under NDA provided benchmarks) there's virtually no doubt about it now. Pentium 4 won't be Intels saviour. The only remaining questions is how the public will react on these numbers. Will they be impressed by some optimized benchmarks scores? Or will they concentrate on the low legacy performance? That remains to be seen. I just hope AMD will use the opportunity for some good PR when they launch their P4 "answer" (high GHz Thunderbirds/Morgans with DDR). Andreas