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[Rant] Pentium IV Prototype at 3.5 GHzANN.lu
Posted on 29-Aug-2001 09:05 GMT by Christian Kemp41 comments
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Solar (BAUD) wrote: PPC vs x86, Intel vs AMD, believe me folks I´d like to see PPC rule the market, but this looks like x86 is here to stay. I think it´s interesting to see what will be tomorrow, even if it has little to do with Amiga today. Yes, I know that GHz isn´t everything, but that´s a *lot* of GHz to make up for with superior (?) architecture... From Heise Online:

"In the early morning, shortly after 8 AM local time, [Intel] presented a prototype of a 0.13µm Pentium-4 (Northwood), which - shortly - ran at 3.5 GHz.

On average, the IDF record breaking CPUs reach the market after roughly a year. The 2 GHz type that started production yesterday was also presented as a prototype on last year´s IDF. So we can expect the 3.5 GHz Pentium 4 in late summer 2002. In general, so Otellini, the architecture can be scaled up to 10 GHz."

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Posted by Bart Vanhaeren on 28-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT
Some real life facts:
I bought a Apple G4 dual 533Mhz machine a few weeks ago. Since I'm participating in the Distributed.Net Bovine project (RSA RC5-64 encryption cracking contest) I downloaded the Mac G4 client to crack keys on my machine. Benchmarking reveals 4.8 milion keys/sec on a single G4 533Mhz (I have two of these babies in the Mac!!). The same test on an AMD K7 Athlon Thunderbird 1.3 Ghz was not better than 4 milion keys/sec.
Not bad considering the G4 has about 800Mhz less cycles to burn and still faster (OK, G4 code is heavely optimised, but so is x86 code on Athlon)
To put things in perspective, my 68060 Amiga at 50Mhz squeezes out 117 thousand keys/second, roughly the performance of an Intel Pentium with almost twiche as much Mhz.
Altough it's a marketing slogan of Apple at the moment, there's a lot of truth in the "MegaHertz Myth". As long as Motorola catches up at about half of the speed of competitive x86 products, there will be no performance gap. To bad the entire market indeed believes in the Mhz Myth...
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