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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (141697)	8/15/2001 6:00:04 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

...two years ago the 650Mhz Athlon was probably the fastest performing desktop CPU on the planet. Can you say the same thing for the P4 today? Sure. It's called leapfrog. Very often, the small fry does a skunk works project, or just overexceeds, and comes out with a product that is superior to the gorilla's. The gorilla generally comes back by putting extra resources to bear, and takes the lead back. Besides Intel/AMD, Cisco/Juniper comes to mind. With the 2.0 GHz P4, the leapfrog back over AMD will be complete. Recently the benchmarks that AMD has mainly been winning were office productivity types: the, like, how fast do you need your Excel spreadsheet to update types. Palomino/Northwood? We'll see. I would bet that Intel's had enough time with their chip improvement to keep the lead. Plus, it's on 0.13 from the getgo. In my experience, the small fry generally have one or two products in the limelight, and then they fall back. Sometimes they get bought out, or just plain disappear. Tony

To: Charles Gryba who wrote (141697)	8/15/2001 6:31:56 PM
From: Noel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

CGryba, 650 MHz Athlon/P4, faster processor on planet??? Point well-taken. However, that was a one time feat. The larger question is whether AMD will repeat. Going by what's on the SPEC website: Integer Floating point Base Peak Base Peak Advanced Micro Devic 1.4GHz 495 554 426 458 Dell Precision WorkStation 1.80 GHz 599 619 615 631 Compaq AlphaServer 1.001 GHz 561 621 585 756 itt does seem that the 1.8GHz P4 is the best on the planet in terms of base performance and the Alpha 1GHz the best in peak performance. You may question the relevance of these benchmarks themselves but this is the only benchmark for which I have seen that all CPU vendors are willing to provide data.