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To: ptanner who wrote (83153)	6/20/2002 11:07:26 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Patrick, I think the gains will be lower primarily due to the Athlon's much larger L1 plus the possibility of an additional clock cycle on the L2. I agree on L1 in a sense that effectively, NWs increase in total cache was from 256K to 512K (disregarding L1), or 100%, while AMD's will be from 384K to 640K (amazing isn't it? I remember total RAM being 640K, and now it can be entirely on-die), or only 66%, so AMD will most likely have 66% of the gain. Should we make a friendly wager? Ok, how about SpecInt? And how about 66% of the percentage improvement of P4 2.0 to 2.0A being the threshhold. CPU Base Peak Dell Precision WorkStation 340 (2.0 GHz P4) 648 664 Dell Precision WorkStation 340 (2.0A GHz P4) 738 759 Increase 13.9% 14.3% Barton expected increase 9.1% 9.4% If it the performance increase matches or exceeds my expectation, I win, if it is below, you win. How is that? Joe