| [Rant] Pentium IV Prototype at 3.5 GHz | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 29-Aug-2001 09:05 GMT by Christian Kemp | 41 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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| Comment 1 | Anonymous | | 28-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Hans-Joerg Frieden | | 28-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Ben Hermans/Hyperion | | 28-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Tinman | | 28-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 5 | koan | | 28-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT |
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| Posted by Solar (BAUD) on 28-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (koan):
> While x86 based PCs are getting faster and faster, who is using these
> extra processing cycles ? Anyone ?
> The damn things still take minutes to boot (and reboot!)
1) We said almost the same back when the x86 CPU family became faster and faster while our 68k couldn´t keep up. Now it´s PPC and x86...
2) What takes minutes to boot isn´t the CPU, and it´s not even Windows: It´s the loads and loads of utilities, drivers, tools etc. (e.g. RealPlayer) that are started automatically. I´ve seen Amigas with a loaded WBStartup taking minutes to boot, and I´ve seen bare-bones Windows PCs booting in a couple of seconds.
> You need fast data transfers e.g. to disk and back for the machine to
> "feel snappy", which is what users really want at the end of the
> day.
Data transfers don´t come any faster than ATA-66. (Yes, there is ATA-100, but hard drives have yet to reach 66 MByte/sec. - that´s again independant of CPU *and* OS...)
> Why are Amiga users so dedicated to finding a "PC slaying machine" ?
Because a new Amiga has to be "PC slaying" in order to get out of it´s niche and survive. There´s simply no way to do so hardware wise, so we have to rely on a "PC slaying" OS. Since the hardware doesn´t matter, I think it´s worthwile to look where the x86 CPUs have gotten.
BTW, by the time the PPCs achieve comparable speeds, *their* pipeline won´t be much shorter... |
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