Athlon XP1900+ -- Faster Than A 2GHz P4?

doormat writes "AMD releases their AthlonXP 1900+ Processor today, thats 1.6GHz. And it seems like its enough to topple the P4-2.0GHz, even in Quake 3 Arena!! AMDMB has a review of it." Ian Bell points out an AMD press release on the new processor. I love watching my old Athlon get slower every day ...

Comments

Quake

[Anonymous Coward]

Why, oh why, do you people insist on using something like Quake as a measure for how powerful your system is?!

Use large scale (=requiring tens of gigabytes of memory so that I/O gets tested as well) floating point matrix multiplication or inversion instead. Even serving web pages would do, although it would not take the computer to its true performance limit.

Games, by definition, are not suitable as real performance meters.

Re:Public perception of processor speeds

[Kalidor]

Actually it is semi correct. The Itanium chip will speed up your net connection if you enable IPSec, when compared to an AMD processor. The reason is that the Itanium has a special bank of registers for doing the algorithms needed for Win2k and winxp's IPsec. These banks allow the processor to complete the IP-layer encryption without having to mess around with registers that are being used for other stuff, like running your programs. In the AMD chips, even neglecting the problems caused by different pipelining schemes, the chip has to dump all the information it has for the program it running and load encryption/decryption alogrithms and calculate them every time the IP-stack recieves a packet.

Re:Not a *couple* MHz

[SnapShot]

MODERATORS - This isn't offtopic you stupid assholes...

I've always refered the direct approach: MODERATORS - Mod me up as insiteful you fucking morons...