Replies to post #18795 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Elmer Phud]

chr p

anyway, this is my last post on this topic.

In other words you want to get in the last word and then end the discussion. Anybody who cares to look at the SPEC scores sees that P4 easily beats A64 by a wide margin, and that is my last post on the subject.

[chipguy]

Correct but when Williamette was released SSE2 optimised applications were very rare and when SSE2 was not used Williamette was a poor performer. Now, we don't have to wait for 64bit applications to declare Athlon 64 an overal winner.


Sorry but SSE2 is only a minor part of optimization for
P4 even for FP intensive applications. The use of SSE2
only increased Willamette performance on SPECfp2k by
about 5%.

http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/q12001/articles/art_2.htm

page 6

"For FSPEC 2000 the new SSE/SSE2 instructions buy about
5% performance gain compared to an x87-only version."

anyway, this is my last post on this topic.

Given your batting average on this topic dropping it
seems like your best option.