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To: jcholewa who wrote (20188)	11/22/2000 10:33:07 AM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I'm asking because there are differences in scaling which should be noted. Would the higher memory bandwidth of the i850 allow the Pentium 4 to scale better as frequency increases, or would the lower start frequencies and greater execution resources allow the Athlon to scale better? I'm in agreement with Dr. Tom. Rambus is showing it's worth on the P4, and if they have to ditch it for cost reasons in Q3, P4 IPC will take a major hit. This issue will overshadow the "scaleing" question.

To: jcholewa who wrote (20188)	11/22/2000 10:35:45 AM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

JC- have you heard anything about the P4 errata rumor? Johan is reporting that it may be a more serious issue. aceshardware.com

To: jcholewa who wrote (20188)	11/22/2000 1:41:44 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Would the higher memory bandwidth of the i850 allow the Pentium 4 to scale better as frequency increases, or would the lower start frequencies and greater execution resources allow the Athlon to scale better? You ask a question that I (a software engineer) am completely unqualified to answer, so here goes :^) Firstly you are considering these future processors running on current platforms. The memory bandwidth would be a problem, but surely we will be looking at faster DDR (and RDRAM) by then. I would guess the memory factor will be about the same as it is now, if not balanced more in favor of the Athlon which is more memory constrained at present. So with faster memory I believe the 1.6 Athlon will compare to the 2.0 P4 pretty much the same as 1.2 Athlon does to 1.5 P4. FWIW.