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To: Scumbria who wrote (130884)	3/26/2001 12:01:27 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, P4 has some excellent properties for SSE based games. High DRAM bandwidth and a wide, parallel SIMD FPU. I suspect that P4 will easily dominate the high end gamers market over the next 12-18 months. As far as I know, P4 dominates nothing. It edges out Athlon on 1 and a 1/2 game, and loses on the rest. Joe

To: Scumbria who wrote (130884)	3/26/2001 1:07:51 PM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

P4 has some excellent properties for SSE based games. High DRAM bandwidth and a wide, parallel SIMD FPU. I suspect that P4 will easily dominate the high end gamers market over the next 12-18 months. Hope you're right... but at the same time, I hope SSE2 optimizations start showing benefits in other areas as well... The raw floating point power of the P4 is amazing, but very few programs are actually using it as most of the FPU comes from the SSE/SSE2 units, not the x87 unit. If SSE2 optimizations only provide a 5-10% improvement, then there isn't going to be a lot of impetus to optimize the software. If, however, SSE2 provides 10+% improvement then there is a lot greater motivation. I would really like to see a 10-30% improvement with SSE2 optimization, but the jury's really still out there...