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To: Petz who wrote (170881)9/10/2002 2:46:55 PM
From: wanna_bmw  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Petz, Re: Explain to me why Intel needs "special benchmarks" to "evaluate the effect of hyperthreading."

What you're really trying to ask is, "Will Intel forge more benchmark results to make their technology look better with respect to the competition?"

Stop looking for false fires, Petz. Hyperthreading makes use of applications with multiple threads, but most benchmarks are single threaded. New benchmarks will have to make use of applications with multiple threads to show a benefit for Hyperthreading.

If AMD had Hyperthreading, I don't doubt that you'd be able to figure this one out by yourself.

wbmw



To: Petz who wrote (170881)9/10/2002 2:49:49 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Petz, <Explain to me why Intel needs "special benchmarks" to "evaluate the effect of hyperthreading.">

Maybe Intel wants to do a QuantiSpeed thing and make a 3.0 GHz P4 look like a "Model 4000?" ;-)

Other than that, I don't know. If benchmarking is a subjective mess with single-threaded cores, imagine the nightmare of benchmarking dual-core or dual-threaded cores.

Tenchusatsu



To: Petz who wrote (170881)9/10/2002 2:57:31 PM
From: Charles Gryba  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Petz, I can. They need "special benchmarks" so it can look good. Otherwise, HT is a non-event it seems and it raises the heat dissipation of the P4.

C



To: Petz who wrote (170881)9/10/2002 3:04:05 PM
From: Robert Salasidis  Respond to of 186894
 
As predicted!

Message 17939210

Were any of the benchmarks listed ones that require/allow multiple threads. Most benchmarks are single thread ones, and thus multithreading at best would run at 0% speed gain if tehre is no overhead.
This is another area where new benchmarks will be required (much to the frowns of the AMD crowd).

Potentially they could go after Apple's photoshop market with photoshop filter benchmarks. Those would definitely benefit from multithreading.


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