To: wanna_bmw who wrote (56057 ) 9/22/2001 7:30:38 PM From: fyodor_ Read Replies (2) | Respond to Wanna: Look at the strides the Pentium 4 has already made. It is already pushing faster frequencies than any other CPU that exists, and it's performance already beats the best thing AMD has to offer (although this may be challenged with AMD's next round of products). performance surpasses Athlon performance (2GHz P4 vs 1.4GHz Tbird), but if the market price was determined based solely on performance, the P4 would be dead in the water. Remember, P4 die size is almost twice that of Tbird. As the platform matures further, this advantage will only increase. With extra cache, higher frequencies on .13u, 533MHz front side bus, and more software optimizations (all coming next year), I can't see how you can call it a crock. vastly overestimated the "software optimizations". You need to remember that virtually no one uses Intel's compilers - they use Microsoft's (and often not even the latest ones!). Yes, benchmarks will be better optimized next year, but for all intents and purposes, software people use… won't. I'll grant you that there will be a few exceptions - I fully expect Intel will optimize a few filters here and there (which may or may not come with the software when you buy it)… and the like. But little more.
