Hey SENTENTIAL....................

[carlosd]

Originally posted by: Sentential

Yea what you have said is all true. Northies were indeed faster per clock....to a point. Once you get beyond 4ghz Prescott really begins to shine

Maybe because of the fire caused by the extreme heat?

 

[carlosd]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Promit
This is probably the wrong place, but how many instructions can an Athlon64 have in flight compared to a P4?

I would go directly to AMD and Intel since most of the fanboys have no idea really what's going on inside their chips, nor how that spans to the chipsets/memory/etc as a whole.

Fact is HT or not the a64's and P4's are pretty close in my opinion across all benchmarks to usually warrant something as statisically insignificant. What many of the lop-sided benchmarks do is put the wrong hardware platform under the chip they want to lose and show that as it's not in the same league.

Yes, yes, but there are other important factors like HEAT and price. And at a similar performance point AMD CPUS are cooler and cheaper. And those factors are not insignificant for anybody.

 

[CheesePoofs]

Originally posted by: Sentential

Originally posted by: Duvie
I think it is called stages..of the pipeline. The P4 suffers from latencies and penalties from the longer pipeline. Part of the reason the A64 and lack of long idle waits cannot really gain anything by implementing a hyperthreading scheme like Intel...

the northwood was like 22 I think....A reason the prescott without optimized SSE3 programs actually clock for clock performs a bit worse then a similar clocked northwood from the 2.8ghz range up to the 3.4ghz range.

Yea what you have said is all true. Northies were indeed faster per clock....to a point. Once you get beyond 4ghz Prescott really begins to shine

..... Maybe that'd be because northwoods can't reach 4ghz

And I'd have to agree with carlosd. Burnt silicon must be at least somewhat shiny. Or maybe the fire from the burnt silicon is?