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To: pgerassi who wrote (139589)	7/18/2001 3:42:43 PM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I guess that it is the same blind spot that fools them both times. They forget to normalize the context before comparing results. Sloppy thinking! Pete Right...... According to most, if not all, AMD fans, when these guys slam intel, they're brilliant, when they slam AMD, they're "fooled". Semi

To: pgerassi who wrote (139589)	7/18/2001 4:40:01 PM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dean and Paul think that 500 MHZ disadvantage at 1.7 GHz is better than a 600 MHz disadvantage at 2.4 but, in reality it is the opposite, 1.2/1.7 is smaller than 1.8/2.4. It is clock speed disadvantage relative to absolute clock since IPC multiplies and doesn't sum to clock rate. They must be bad at fractions and math overall to make such a fundamental error! They also fail to make a distinction between comparing CPUs sold in a flat environment and CPUs sold in a rising one. Its like oranges sold in a freeze and oranges sold in warm temperatures. The later gets far more money than the former but, with the first predicting a freeze for both and the later predicting good growing for both. I guess that it is the same blind spot that fools them both times. They forget to normalize the context before comparing results. Sloppy thinking! You're assuming that the K7 core and the P4 core both scale linearly with the same slope... indications are, they don't have the same slope... indications are that the P4 has a much higher slope than the K7. So a 500MHz disadvantage today is one thing, but in six months the same 500MHz disadvantage could be even worse... Now who's not "normalizing?"