Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

DeMone post for record:

http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105064779

"For the record, I think the Prescott will outperform Northwood on a
clock for clock basis on the vast majority of PC applications. In
fact I find it hard to conceive of an application on which it will
underperform Northwood."

The difference between the pragmatic and the fanatic is
the pragmatic will change opinions freely and willing to
fit empirical data as it becomes known.

http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105067217

"Assuming Charlie's numbers are correct, the three sets
of figures strongly suggest that at release the Prescott
processor core will perform decidely worse than the P4
Northwood core. Considering that the Prescott CPU core
has roughly 2.5x more logic transistors than the Northwood
CPU core this raises the obvious question what the hell
is going with Prescott?"

...

"It looks like AMD will likely be in the driver's seat in the
high end x86 desktop MPU segment until Intel sorts out its
Prescott issues."