After reading the new Updated Review on P4. I think I should congratulate Intel ever producing such a modern P4 chip that sucks in all benchmark. In my oppinion, there are some goodies out of it.
The 400 Mhz bus is indeed something to look at. It can be seen that the 400 Mhz FSB and the Dual Channel memory yield so much of a difference when overclocked. -- Doesn't this suggesting 400 Mhz FSB is still slow? It would make the Athlon looks even more pathetic which runs at only 200 Mhz FSB and very limited memory bandwidth even with DDR-SDRAM. Needless to say the Coppermine would look even worst. Celeron much much much worst.
The effectiveness of instruction processed in half a cycle clock is another thing AMD can learn from. It looks as if, P4 which perform so well in MMX-idct has actually relied on instruction processed in half a cycle.
Another lesson AMD can bring home is that FPU is very very important.... In virtually every benchmark, AMD leads in FPU intensive program. This should strengthen the fact that FPU is very important.
A better branch predictor? Another thing AMD can learn from.
Eventhough, P4 looks pretty much a crappy processors to me, I think from these lessons, it should teach AMD to avoid some of these flaky designs... nevertheless, AMD should look at some of the "cool" stuffs out of P4.
The 400 Mhz bus is indeed something to look at. It can be seen that the 400 Mhz FSB and the Dual Channel memory yield so much of a difference when overclocked. -- Doesn't this suggesting 400 Mhz FSB is still slow? It would make the Athlon looks even more pathetic which runs at only 200 Mhz FSB and very limited memory bandwidth even with DDR-SDRAM. Needless to say the Coppermine would look even worst. Celeron much much much worst.
The effectiveness of instruction processed in half a cycle clock is another thing AMD can learn from. It looks as if, P4 which perform so well in MMX-idct has actually relied on instruction processed in half a cycle.
Another lesson AMD can bring home is that FPU is very very important.... In virtually every benchmark, AMD leads in FPU intensive program. This should strengthen the fact that FPU is very important.
A better branch predictor? Another thing AMD can learn from.
Eventhough, P4 looks pretty much a crappy processors to me, I think from these lessons, it should teach AMD to avoid some of these flaky designs... nevertheless, AMD should look at some of the "cool" stuffs out of P4.
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