Replies to post #1584 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[Elmer Phud]

John -

The numbers are so high in fact that they're getting on for 30% above the scores seen from top-end 32-bit PC1066 systems

Which underscores the point that when AMD made their claims of Industry leading performance upon Hammer introduction, they were only guessing as to where Intel would be and they are very very late to boot!

I think I'm done writing PUTs on AMD unless someone will buy my $0s

EP

[wbmw]

John, Re: The numbers are so high in fact that they're getting on for 30% above the scores seen from top-end 32-bit PC1066 systems

Synthetic scores can be funny sometimes. In the example mentioned, the DDR memory was overclocked to 188MHz, which is more than 40% higher than what Granite Bay supports by default. My guess on performance is that Granite Bay will exceed PC1066 on the i850 in benchmarks only if given good memory timings (2-2-2), and even then, I'm not expecting more than 3-5%. The good thing about Granite Bay is that it will be much higher volume than PC1066 Rambus. Springdale later in Q2 2003 will offer DDR333 support, and make the chipset as mainstream and popular as the i845 is now.

wbmw