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The idiots at
Intel are back again... The Pentium 4 is another one of there latest constructions..
NOTE: CLOCK SPEED IS NOT EVERYTHING.. It has been proven that a 900Mhz
Athlon in some applications exceeds a
1.4 GHZ Pentium 4. Just because a processor claims to have
the fastest clock cycles, doesn't mean it is faster.
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| AMD |
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AMD
is going to market its newer desktop series of processors using Pr
ratings (Performance ratings). This is done because clock frequency
(measured in MHz) is no longer considered an accurate measure of CPU
performance. Pr ratings use a system where a standard set of
configuration and benchmarks are used to evaluate system performance so
as to get a real world measure of performance instead of lab results
where the motherboard is properly configured for the processor and
involves a high level of prescion and accuracy, which is not found in
the system you buy from the market directly or through any company.
(Reason - High Cost)
Getting back to AMD e.g.- an AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz processor will be labeled
as an Athlon 1500+ processor. This indicates that Athlon 1500+ has a performance equivalent to a
Pentium 4 1.5 GHz processor.
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| Pentium 4. |
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Well, but why does the P 4 suck. Could it be that they did the same
thing as what they did to the celeron?( Read Celeron) Yep... thats
right. 8kb L1 cache. The same amount as a 486. Pathetic. they probably
did this because they realized that the Athlons are much cheaper, and
faster. So to keep up to their pricing, they probably removed cache,
which is expensive. Wait a while, and Intel will probably realize there
mistake again.
What really pisses me off though is the fact that 32 bit assembly instructions which
Intel developed, take 14 cycles to process on a Pentium 4 1.4 GHz, while on a Pentium 3
833 MHz, they only take 5 (lower is better). well, that is stupid..totally
That could have something to do with their register stalls on their
processor. AMD's used to have them, but they solved the problems. A
register stall means that stacks of instructions will be slower then
they should...
The Pentium 4's are fastest if the code is grouped in 3's, while on
every other processor, its best to be grouped in 2's. Grouping in 3's
technically doesn't add any speed advantage and should have been left
the way they were originally.( This is up to the programmer)
Do you think
that programmers are going to design their code specifically for these
dodgy pieces of junk... I think not. The programmers don't give a shit.
That's the job of the compilers. But alas, the compilers haven't even
caught up to being optimized for Pentium 3's yet. Looks like you will
need to wait a couple of years or never before programs are optimized
for the Pentium 4.
Nobody has even started developing anything that uses SSE primarily because they
recognize that the P 4 is badly designed and recognize it as a failure. Just a confirmation that their processor
suxx big time.
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| Intel
- Celeron & Itanium. |
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Celeron.
- The idiots at Intel decided to release a mmuch cheaper processor for
the low end market. Sure it was cheap. But they virtually took away all
the cache. Well... without the cache, the processor can't catch
up with all the instructions anyway so it dramatically reduces
performance. So, half a year later, they finally realized that some
more cache would help, so they finally re-released it with more
cache... the Celeron II ... Bloody idiots. They should have released it
like that beforehand
Itanium. - Anyone
who would be bothered to get all their source code to be compatible
with an Itanium, would probably be better off with a high end processor
or clustering their machines. Not only would it be easier, but would be
compatible with more as well. Processors such as the G4 leave the
Itanium biting the dust.
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Summary -Intel sucks... they are trying to go out of
their league to force programmers to follow them and fail miserably.
Therefore,
I predict that the Pentium 4, will be very unsuccessful. I also believe
that they should tackle the problems which AMD has already fixed, and
they should once again develop a high end Pentium compatible processor
like the Xeons that were a success. My theory is that the Pentium 5
will be essentially the Pentium 4, but made correctly and with more
cache.
The only reason everybody prefers Intel is because of their marketing
strategy. Ask any friend of yours, if he know what is AMD or Cyrix. I bet he
will be as dumb as a dumb dog. The only thing where AMD looses is the marketing
part but they are solving it slowly.
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