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To: brushwud who wrote (10831)	4/2/2003 2:37:38 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Ah brushwud the AMD fan...this 1's 4 U... Itanium 2 performance is excellent Letter And I'm an AMD fan By The Letterman: Wednesday 02 April 2003, 19:28 Dear Mike Even though I'm a fan of AMD and am planning to get my personal Opteron box in April (why wait until Sept?) it is to be noted that at long last, the Itanium II is actually performing on par with similarly-classed processors. That is, if you look at the SPEC performance lists, boxes from Bull, HP, NEC and SGI with 1Ghz Itaniums are now doing as well as 1 Ghz Alphas. It's doing particularly well on floating point performance because the high latency batch processing model of VLIW seems to work well. It's also notable that SGI may be the company that actually saves the Itanium and makes it viable in the highest end - its Altix machines now scale up to 64 way and are outdoing the IBM Power4 on a per-processor basis for FP. Of course, they are not releasing MP integer results. That being said, the highest Spec Int scores are still from the Pentium 4s, followed by the Athlons. So the remark that Capellas made about Alphas not being able to keep up might start to be true. Of course, this may not be a fair comparison as the Alpha should've been released in EV7 mode if it had been properly funded. I don't think the Opteron is in trouble anyway, since there going to be such a price difference. Anyway, I wanted to note that the next major thing might be the Itanium II actually becoming on par with other processors, rather than being embarassingly behind. theinquirer.net ...Cookie....;)