| From: | David McMinn |
| Date: | 18 Sep 2001 at 15:39:19 |
| Subject: | [amigactive] Re: Whizzy CPUs |
--- In amigactive@y..., Alan Buxey <almb@m...> wrote:
> > Fully 64 bit, pipeline isn't much longer than G4 and they seem to
> > be interested in making desktop versions (i.e. the high clock
> > frequecy ones so Apple can convince the Mhz-morons that a PPC is
> > as fast as a x86).
>
> its nice...but i'm afraid that soon the 'MHz' war is going to be
> 'dumbed down' . AMD are set to start marketting their CPUs as Cyrix
> did....with a 'realtive' rating instead. ie lets say the 1.6GHz is
> equal to the 2GHz PIV...in this case, the AMD chip is to be sold as
> a PIV-2GHz part...even though its running at just 1.6GHz.... its not
Hopefully it won't be as meaningless as the Cyrix ratings, since their
FPU sucked badly, the only thing that was as good as the Intels was
the integer unit.
And you'll still get people moaning about the relative ratings, saying
that whatever is being used as a benchmark isn't optimised properly
for blah blah PIV/3dNow/Altivec.
> perhaps Motorola could follow suit? We'd suddenly have 3MHz
> equivalents ;-)
Surely we had that 15-odd years ago ;)
> but yes, the large jump in PPC clockspeed is certainly refreshing on
> the PowerPC front sheeesh! 1.5GHz of G5 power!
The nice thing about the G5 is the 64bitness of it and it supposed to
be able to run 32bit code at full speed (although I don't know if that
would require re-compiling programs). Would make a good upgrade path
from OS4 to OS5 (which IYRC is supposed to be 64bit only). So we'd
have a 64 bit CPU now while AMD is hacking around with the claw end of
a hammer ;)
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