When Tom's posted the first review on the Pentium 4, I had been happy to see Dr. Thomas Pabst barely even jibe at Intel. It had seemed as though he understood Intel was trying to establish a new standard in SSE2 with their P4 chip.
But now, after reading the update to the P4 review, I can only be disappointed with Dr. Thomas Pabst. His clearly obvious biased statements against Intel are saddening.
He completely fails to admit that the P4 is not only incorporating SSE2, but is DESIGNED around SSE2. And that without SSE2 compatible software, the P4's results are less than ideal.
He completely fails to inform the user that his benchmarks will be completely unimportant once software is compiled under SSE2. And that once SSE2 becomes a new standard, it will be incorporated into nearly all x86 software, making the Pentium 4's poor non-SSE2 FPU performance virtually unnoticeable because very little software will be using the non-SSE2 FPU.
And he completely fails to mention to the user the fact that at least some of the test results were intrisically biased against Intel because the software being run had optimizations for AMD's 3DNow, but had absolutely no optimizations for Intel's SSE2. So of course software optimized to run on an AMD chip and not on a Pentium4 chip is going to give better results to the AMD chip.
All of this disheartens me. If Dr. Thomas Pabst cannot even inform his readers that his Pentium 4 review is meaningless once SSE2 becomes a standard, then he is clearly biasing his opinions against Intel.
What seems obvious to me is that the Pentium 4 is engineered completely around SSE2 and that while running SSE2 optimized code, it will out perform any other chip, even if that chip has support for SSE2.
The Pentium 4 chip is designed for the market of any software that runs SSE2 optimized software. And it appears to me that the Pentium 4 will reign supreme in that market.
Which leaves AMD's chips to reign supreme in the non-SSE2 optimized market and low-cost market.
So it looks to me as though the Pentium 4 will be a valuable CPU in the future, and has a definite purpose, despite Dr. Thomas Pabst's articles.
- Anything can be fixed with duct tape, a swiss army knife, and WD-40.
But now, after reading the update to the P4 review, I can only be disappointed with Dr. Thomas Pabst. His clearly obvious biased statements against Intel are saddening.
He completely fails to admit that the P4 is not only incorporating SSE2, but is DESIGNED around SSE2. And that without SSE2 compatible software, the P4's results are less than ideal.
He completely fails to inform the user that his benchmarks will be completely unimportant once software is compiled under SSE2. And that once SSE2 becomes a new standard, it will be incorporated into nearly all x86 software, making the Pentium 4's poor non-SSE2 FPU performance virtually unnoticeable because very little software will be using the non-SSE2 FPU.
And he completely fails to mention to the user the fact that at least some of the test results were intrisically biased against Intel because the software being run had optimizations for AMD's 3DNow, but had absolutely no optimizations for Intel's SSE2. So of course software optimized to run on an AMD chip and not on a Pentium4 chip is going to give better results to the AMD chip.
All of this disheartens me. If Dr. Thomas Pabst cannot even inform his readers that his Pentium 4 review is meaningless once SSE2 becomes a standard, then he is clearly biasing his opinions against Intel.
What seems obvious to me is that the Pentium 4 is engineered completely around SSE2 and that while running SSE2 optimized code, it will out perform any other chip, even if that chip has support for SSE2.
The Pentium 4 chip is designed for the market of any software that runs SSE2 optimized software. And it appears to me that the Pentium 4 will reign supreme in that market.
Which leaves AMD's chips to reign supreme in the non-SSE2 optimized market and low-cost market.
So it looks to me as though the Pentium 4 will be a valuable CPU in the future, and has a definite purpose, despite Dr. Thomas Pabst's articles.
- Anything can be fixed with duct tape, a swiss army knife, and WD-40.