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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (142745)	9/5/2001 9:38:08 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Why don't you link to this "older" software that you are referring to Not too many tests of P4 and anything but the latest software. But even on current software, if it's doing real CPU work You can see that these scenes require volumes of calculations. A single frame takes about 2-3 minutes! Unfortunately for Intel, the Pentium 4 takes a serious smack down. It performs barely better than its 50% slower clocked predecessor, the PIII. aceshardware.com

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (142745)	9/6/2001 12:34:35 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

*Re: Why don't you link to this "older" software that you are referring to.* .** Remember, that despite Intel having "coaxed" everyone into looking at little other than the subset of floating point operations that are particularly memory intensive, most code is integer code. Higher numbers are better Athlon 1.2 4.37 Athlon 1.0 3.62 PIII 1.0 2.83 P4 1.5 1.98 The RC5 performance test is almost exclusively a measure of Integer performance. Factors such as memory bandwidth, FSB frequency or cache performance don't affect the score and as you can see, the Pentium 4 isn't doing good at all. Even with an optimized RC5 client it is doubtful that the Pentium 4 will be able to do much in purely integer tests like this one. anandtech.com