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Re: Emulator, Inc
- Subject: Re: Emulator, Inc
- From: Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:51:16 -0400
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:17:14 -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
> "Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
>> I know that Pentium 4 has some problems, but I stay on Xeon Pentium III
>> until Pentium 4 will be fixed.
>
> What problems are these?
Cycle for cycle, It executes code a lot more slowly than a Pentium III,
Athlon, or Athlon 64. That's all.
It's obvious that the Pentium 4 is microarchitecturally cripped with
respect to these other processors when you look at the benchmarks and
see that a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition running at 3.6 Ghz with 2580kb
of onboard cache is essentially the same speed as an Athlon 64 FX-51
processor running at 2.2Ghz with 1088k onboard cache.
All that, however, it hardly matters since the Pentium 4 is capable
of being run at much higher core frequencies, which makes up for the
cycle for cycle disadvantage.
-Sheldon