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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (118932)	11/22/2000 3:25:21 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: From the AMD thread..... Tom does recount Wow. Considering that Intel's cost on this chip has to be around $150 at .18, this may be a break-even or worse chip for them in Q1. (I'm using the $10K per wafer heuristic) I wonder what 1.3 and 1.4 parts will be going for to OEMs after terms, quantity discounts, rambus subsidies, and advertising co-op dollars are taken into account? They'll be able to make some money on 1.5 and 1.6 parts. I do certainly admit that MPEG4-encoding is only one of many tasks that could run significantly faster on Pentium 4 once new SSE2-code is used in the encoders. However, these are nothing but future tunes. Right now there is Quake 3 and then is Quake 3, besides that there is only Quake 3. Have I mentioned that Pentium 4 is really good in Quake 3? Let's summarize the latest findings: Pentium 4 scores very badly in MPEG4 encoding benchmarks once the IEEE high quality iDCT is used. Pentium 4 runs current office applications slower than Pentium 3 and much slower than AMD's Athlon, as proven in our Sysmark 2000 benchmark results from Monday. Pentium 4 scores worse than Athlon in Unreal Tournament. Pentium 4 is a very bad solution for compilations with gcc 2.95.2 under Linux. Pentium 4 scores very badly in 3D Studio Max , proving a sub-par FPU. Pentium 4 gets slightly beaten by Athlon in the 3D game MDK2. Pentium 4 is badly losing out against Pentium 3 as well as Athlon in clock-for-clock comparisons. Pentium 4 is currently the most expensive x86-system solution available. BUT Pentium 4 is really good at Quake 3 Arena! Honestly!