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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (141491)	8/13/2001 6:08:47 PM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Oh really? pulling closer to even would be more accurate don't you think? No... I don't think so. "Pulling closer to even" implies that the P4 is still behind the K7 in overall performance. Using Anand's numbers (who I don't think anyone could accuse of being a staunch Intel supporter with a straight face...) Comparing 1.4K7 to 1.8P4: Even in CC Winstone 01 (K7 with slight edge) Even in Business Winstone 01 (P4 with slight edge) P4 has a huge lead in Sysmark 01 - ICC Even in Sysmark 01 office productivity P4 has a huge lead in Sysmark 01 - overall system perf. P4 has a slight lead in office bench 01 - BLL K7 has a slight lead in office bench 01 - LL1 K7 has a lead in office bench 01 - LL2 K7 has a lead in Anand's cooked version of 3D studiomax P4 leads in Truespace 4.2 P4 has a huge lead in Q3 K7 leads in the aquamark bench, but the limitation is the video card, not the CPU, so I've generally discounted this benchmark. P4 leads by a huge margin in DroneZ (optimizations turned off for an apples to apples comparison) Taking a final tally: Benchmarks too close to call: 3 P4 leads: 6 K7 leads: 3 or 4 if you include the questionable Aquamark. The P4 is therefore equivalent to or better than the K7 in 75% of the benchmarks. The K7 is equivalent to or better than the P4 in only 50% of the benchmarks. I also used this article to calculate some "scaling with speed" numbers... Those showed that the P4 gets a greater performance per percent speed increase than the K7. I therefore expect the few benchmarks still showing parity or a K7 lead will show clear top-grade P4 lead when compared to the top-grade K7 in the next 3 to 6 months. Many will flip as soon as the 2.0GHz P4 is released. I doubt most of those will flip back even with the addition of a 1.5GHz K7.