- Jun 26, 2001
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Hi y'all.
I have been researching the Sledgehammer and Clawhammer processors from AMD, as well as the G5 from Apple. Here's the deal: Around teh end of this year, towards the beginning, the Sledgehammer 64-Bit processor from AMD will come out. The Sledgehammer will be made for servers, seriously high end workstations, and super computers. It's L2 cache at full speed will range from 512 KB to 2 Mb, depending upon what you choose- oh yeah, it'll also start out at 2Ghz! later on, the Clawhammer will come out, which will be made for high end PC's. It'll pretty much be teh same. The "Hammer" or K8 series from AMD will be fully backwards compatible with 16 and 32 bit applications.
What leaves to beleive that Apple is seriously srewed is that their all powerful G5, which will come out in Q3 of 2002 (way later than Sledgehammer) will also be 2 Ghz, although there have been rumors that it wil start out at 1Ghz. It isn't sure yet whether it will start out as 32-Bit and progress to 64, or whether it'll simply start out at 64-Bit. This is what leads me to beleive that Apple is screwed (oh, and don't even think about iTanium from Intel, according to studies done and actual testing, it will perform worse than a 1 Ghz P3 in 32 Bit applications!) Plus, AMD will intigrate QDR qhen it come sout, and Apple probably won't.
Looking for wife able to cook, fish, have boat and motor. Please send pic. of boat and motor.
I have been researching the Sledgehammer and Clawhammer processors from AMD, as well as the G5 from Apple. Here's the deal: Around teh end of this year, towards the beginning, the Sledgehammer 64-Bit processor from AMD will come out. The Sledgehammer will be made for servers, seriously high end workstations, and super computers. It's L2 cache at full speed will range from 512 KB to 2 Mb, depending upon what you choose- oh yeah, it'll also start out at 2Ghz! later on, the Clawhammer will come out, which will be made for high end PC's. It'll pretty much be teh same. The "Hammer" or K8 series from AMD will be fully backwards compatible with 16 and 32 bit applications.
What leaves to beleive that Apple is seriously srewed is that their all powerful G5, which will come out in Q3 of 2002 (way later than Sledgehammer) will also be 2 Ghz, although there have been rumors that it wil start out at 1Ghz. It isn't sure yet whether it will start out as 32-Bit and progress to 64, or whether it'll simply start out at 64-Bit. This is what leads me to beleive that Apple is screwed (oh, and don't even think about iTanium from Intel, according to studies done and actual testing, it will perform worse than a 1 Ghz P3 in 32 Bit applications!) Plus, AMD will intigrate QDR qhen it come sout, and Apple probably won't.
Looking for wife able to cook, fish, have boat and motor. Please send pic. of boat and motor.
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