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To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (142248)	8/28/2001 10:47:55 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Joseph, Re: "Pentium 4 processor at 2 GHz delivers a SPECfp_base2000 score of 704."* I just looked up Itanium's FP spec scores for comparison. A Dell system scored 703 and an HP system scored 701. That nearly makes an 800MHz Itanium equal in floating point to a Pentium 4 with 2.5x the frequency advantage. The prior arguments about IA-32 killing IA-64 seem exaggerated to me. Even if McKinley has no per-clock advantage over Merced (and we are expecting a sizable advantage), then the boost in clock frequency alone will give it 25-50% higher performance, requiring a Pentium 4 of 2.5-3.0GHz to equal it. I think McKinley has performance (at least in floating point) in the bag. Now all they need to do is get Integer up to a competitive number, say, in the 600's. wanna_bmw

To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (142248)	8/28/2001 2:50:05 PM
From: Noel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

The Pentium 4 processor at 2 GHz is the world's highest-performance desktop processor ???!!! That is true but I would claim that Pentium 1.7GHz was also the world's highest-performance desktop processor since it beat the Athlon 1.4GHz in SpecInt and SpecFp. The Alpha 1GHz is still faster than P4/2GHz for FP. So depending how you weight INT against FP, the P4/2GHz may be the world's fastest processor (not only desktop). I remember the few weeks in 1996 when the 200 MHz Pentium Pro (P6) was truly the world's faster processor beating the then Alpha 21164 (?) for INT and FP. Of course, DEC came up with a faster processor a few weeks afterwards to reclaim the crown.