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To: Elmer who wrote (119419)	11/28/2000 4:13:49 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Dan the P4 scores you posted are for running X87 code Ah, I didn't see that. Fine, it's 16.23 for a 1.2GHZ Athlon using one channel of inexpensive RAM vs. 14.03 for a 1.5GHZ P4 that's using an expensive dual channel motherboard. And another thing to note, the Athlon code is only partly optimized. Only a small portion of the code has been rewritten thus far, and substantial improvements could be realized once it is released under GPL. P4 1.5 and Athlon 1.2 seem to be roughly comparable in performace when the P4 has dual channel RAM on a 6 layer motherboard and the Athlon has a single RAM channel on a 4 layer motherboard. The Athlon is half the size of the P4 and probably yields 2 to 3 times as many die per wafer. We'll just have to see how each chip scales over the next year. OTOH, given that the market boosts Intel's stock price and trashes the stock price of its competitor AMD on a day that Intel products are being pulled from shelves across the county, the cost, price and performance of P4 may be irrelevant. Dan