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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (56740)	9/30/2001 12:29:12 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 275872

I've also showed that in Quake III, a 2GHz Pentium 4, because it scales much better than a Pentium III, may have a much better score than an equally clocked Pentium III in this benchmark. Therefore, the IPC penalty that Milo has brought up, is only being proven by making far reaching assumptions that are probably not true. Why are you guys comparing a theoretical P3@2GHz to a P4@2GHz? The point should be that a P3 topped out at 1.1GHz on .18u while a P4 has reached at least 2GHz on the same available process. Intel can make and sell those P4s but not the P3s. While your point may be valid about P4 IPC, what's so bad if the IPC were instead down while the overall performance is up, for a given process? EP