Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[sgolds]

drjohn, you are projecting too far out to make any real statements. We don't have any good information on the performance of Prescott on applications and we don't know what apps xxrayeyes will be running.

64-bits will bring more benefits as time goes on, but even initially it will give benefits to certain applications which need large data sets. Video editing (HDTV quality), perhaps some 64-bit optimized games, complex simulations - these will be the first apps to take advantage of the new architecture.

So, we don't know how Prescott will benchmark against the fastest A64 at the time of Prescott release, and we don't know what applications the user may be running which may need very large datasets (where Prescott will be disk bound).