RE: A Question about Dual CPU systems

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

--- Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net> wrote:
<SNIP>
> In light of Chris's comments, I notice that the AMD devices are
> labeled:
> 
> * Dual (2) AMD Athlon MP 1800 1.53GHz Processors
> 
> So what does MP 1800 mean?  Is this an attempt to imply that it is as
> good 
> as an Intel 1.8 GHz chip?

Exactly.  AMD even states it that way. They claim it is a performance
number not a clock speed. 

Now you have to ask if it is a good as an 1.8Ghz P-IV or
a P-III if it could be runat that speed.
I assume they compare themselves to a p_IV as that would
give them the best number.   Look at the www.spec.org site for
objective benchmarks.


> 
> Tom Droege
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 12:53 PM 5/13/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >The marking folks at Intel are pretty smart.  Here is what they
> >did when they went from the Pentium III to the Pentium IV.
> >
> >They figured correctly that "Joe Consumer" who shops at Best Buy
> >knows only one thing about computers "more Gigahurts is goodder"
> >
> >So in one brilliant move, they simplified the CPU logic so that it
> now
> >takes more clock cycles per operation and then run up the clock
> speed
> >so that now a 1Ghz P-III is about equal to a 1.4Ghz P-IV but the
> >P-IV is on a smaller die and costs less to manufacture.  The Intel
> >bean counters are happy. Joe sees a higher clock speed and is happy
> >too.
> >
> >People who know what's up buy the Athalon XP/MP but Intel doesn't
> >care as people who know what's up account for about 0.01% of the
> >PC market.
> >
> >Sun is selling $995.00 SPARC based boxes now.  These shouldn't be
> >overlooked.  They only run at 500Hmz but they are full 64 bit CPUs
> >that do fast floating point and the box is only 1U tall.
> >
> >
> >
> >--- Bob Dubner <rdubner@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> > > Whether you go dual or single, I have some experience with
> > > floating-point
> > > number-crunching applications running under Windows.
> > >
> > > Think Athlon.
> > >
> > > Athlon CPU chips are cheaper, clock cycle for clock cycle, than
> > > Pentium
> > > chips.  And their floating-point unit is more efficient.  In my
> > > experience,
> ><SNIP>
> >
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