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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (56658)	9/28/2001 4:44:58 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Thanks for your answer. So you think that SPEC gives the best indication of possible P4 performance in the future? Judging from the results AMD and Intel posted there so far(*), it seems that AMD is roughly on IPC parity in SPECint2000 and at a 25% disadvantage in SPECfp2000. However, with VIA KT266A and Athlon XP coming up my guess is that this will change to a IPC advantage for AMD in SPECint and a parity (or slight disadvantage) in SPECfp. Intel will be still faster overall in SPEC (integer and floating point) but it's not that AMD is hopeless behind in 'new code'. The main disadvantage for AMD is clock-speed right now IMO. When you project future P4 performance you shouldn't be projecting Willamette scores. Willamette was the first crude implimentation of the P4. Athlon has gone through at least 3 major revisions if you count Palomino so why not think about Northwood with Jackson Technology turned on, higher core speeds, higher bus speeds, larger cache and other possible goodies? Intel says JT could account for 35% performance boost alone... Probably not across the board but it will be a performance increase all by itself. Add in everything else and you have a major pop. Athlon is out of gas. 1.5GHz was promised for last January remember. EP