Replies to post #7380 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[wbmw]

John, Re: When is prescott due

No specific date. Just "by end of year."

Re: I don't think a 256k l2 cache Atlon64 not running dual chanel ddr will be close to being competitve.

That won't even be competitive with Northwood. Prescott has a good chance of even outperforming the full fledged Athlon 64 with 1MB of cache.

[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).