Is a Athlon/P3/P4 1200 really twice as fast as an Athlon/P3/P4 600?
In a synthetic benchmark, maybe. In a real world test, not likely.
PC133 ram isn't twice as fast as PC66 ram. It can read/write data at twice the speed, but that does not mean it can "find" the data at twice the speed. There are still read latencies, write latencies, buffers to go through etc.
Sure the way data is "clocked" into and from the ram implies twice the transfer, we haven't seen a doubling of memory bandwidth.
PC66 - PC100 ram/bus speed only influenced about a 5 - 10% peformance increase. PC100 - PC133, about the same. Why should it be that suprising that the next "greatest" technology be much different from history.
I wasn't surprised to see the difference in speed be small. But its still better than the RAMBUS crap
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Ian McGinley
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