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To: Petz who wrote (49798)	8/3/2001 4:27:39 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Pretty impressive, can't wait for dual channel DDR results using NVidia chipset. The days of embarrassing memory performance results due to this [formerly] poorly optimized benchmark are over." How come we never saw these memory benchmarks before the P4 came along? What do they mean in terms of real world applications? Is there some program called "Memory benchmark" I can run to check it out or is this like comparing the hood length of cars? Jim

To: Petz who wrote (49798)	8/3/2001 10:17:00 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Petz: "However, what is important to notice is that using the new, enhanced version of the Sandra bandwidth benchmark yields more than a 100% increase in performance for the Athlon / DDR SDRAM combo but less than a 50% gain for the Pentium 4. lol... this is one of those amazing "don't care" things, IMHO. A synthetic benchmark... made to "simply" measure bandwidth... and it increases 50-100% by simply tweaking the code... so obviously, it doesn't even do its synthetic performance measurement task with any reasonable degree of certainty. Real programs - or at least synthetic benchmarks that mimic real programs - are infinitely more meaningful. -fyo