Re: Mersenne: P4 speed and implications thereof

[Jud McCranie]

At 07:07 PM 2/11/2001 -0500, Nathan Russell wrote:

 > My understanding is that they are designed to perform well for
>graphical tasks; in my experience, people will buy even very expensive
>computers if it improves the performance they see when doing graphical
>tasks; gaming in particular comes to mind.


 From what I hear, the P4 is better than the Athlon at streaming data, but 
worse at everything else.  Streaming data is good when you process a lot of 
data the same way, such as in graphics.  But the P4 has a deep pipeline 
that will be dumped if there is a branch.  If I were buying now, I'd get an 
Athlon.  That might change in a few months.

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