Double-Whammy Look At The Pentium 4

SystemLogicNet writes: "We at SystemLogic.net have just taken a technical look at the Pentium 4 architecture. In the article we go over all the basics that all the other sites cover like the double pumped ALUs, iSSE2, the longer pipeline, etc, but in addition we have some discussion about how different program structurings have an impact upon the design, and performance of the Pentium 4. One of the major areas where this comes into play is how complex data structures interact with the underlying philosophy that the Pentium 4 is built upon -- extreme bandwidth. This Pentium 4 technical background can be read over here. At the same time, we've done a rigorous analysis, including benchmark description and discussion regarding the Pentium 4's performance, and this can be read over this way."

Comments

Re:Sad state of affairs

[aussersterne]

1 out of every 10 times you try and click on something, or double click something, or open a file, whatever, it fails. Every 10th Word file fails.

Umm... This isn't a very good analogy. Imagine instead:

1. Every tenth word file fails when you double-click on it the first time.
   
2. But when you double-click again it opens fine.
   
3. And you are able to double click on the document icons at a rate of over 1,000,000,000 every second.
   

In other news

[lavaforge]

Intel has recently announced that the latest prototype version of the Pentium 4 will crush any AMD offering in both clock speed and overall performance.

Using the new process of W.attage H.alting R.esistance E.ngineering, Intel can reduce pent-up system tension at an even lower cost.

Also, the WHORE system is fully compatible with the C.omposite R.ecursive A.lgorithm C.reation K.it used for extreme overclocking.

"The CRACK/WHORE combination should be a killer setup for many of our users, and we have already had several U.S. senators make inquiries" says John Thompson, head of engineering at Intel. "We even allow for massive clustering with the P.arallel I.nsulating M.ultipartite P.olymer, or PIMP management process.

Thompson also spoke of project BITCHSLAP for correcting wayward systems, but could not elaborate on it...

One Quick Question

[Kalrand]

Did you just cut and paste a press release onto the front page of Slashdot?

I sure hope you Slashdot isn't selling Front Page space to any little company that pays...

skewed graphs to favor intel

[Digital_Fiend]

the graphs are not done fairly. they almost never started at 0 to a result slightly higher than the higher result of the two processors, they were always done so that the intel bar was much longer (and therefore appeared to do much better) than the athlon when the actual results were that the two processors were pretty close.

also, note that the 1.7 ghz p4 has a 600 mhz advantage over the 1.1 ghz athlon and usually the performance difference was only 10-40%. the p4 has over 50% more processor mhz than the athlon. what an unfair comparison, especially when the 1.33 ghz athlon is out and available for purchase. processor mhz for processor mhz, the athlon beat the p4.

Re:Misleading graphs

[SystemLogicNet]

The graphs were a mistake that was made in Excel...I have fixed them and uploaded them where they start at 0 (I'm the writer of the review). You can see an explanation here:

http://www.systemlogic.net/boards/showthread.php?t hreadid=1404

Could someone please tell me...

[Kjella]

It's already happened on the low end and the highend, and I think it's only a matter of time before it happens on the mid end.

What the hell is a mid *end* ???. Imagine a line.. you have low end, mid and high end. Wtf is a mid end.

Kjella