Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:41:25 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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Timothy Miller wrote:
> I've been reading some people's comments relating to this, and it > reflects a glimmer of an idea that occurred to me initially. To begin > with, I completely agree that it was unethical for Intel to imply that > this was their innovation, giving no credit to AMD. It was wrong, and > they should be ashamed.
Actually, it is unclear enough to me if the Intel chips will have any technical advantages that I have postponed buying the dual Opteron I was planning for 1Q04 until I read the Intel specs more carefully.
These are the issues of interest: - hyperthreading
will Intel offer it and will it be in some way better than the 10-30% gain I see from HT on a P4.
- cost
If Intel follows the previous price models for new chips they are not in any way going to be competitive on cost/performance. On the other hand they know that, they know they are playing catch-up in this market, and they might be aggressive for a change.
- SSE3
what does it provide, is it in any way useful for anything I ever do, and will gcc or the free for personal use Intel C compiler support it?
- availability
will this be a product or just a product announcement? I can wait until 2Q04 if there's a reason to do so, after that I assume it's just FUD.
- will it work
or will it follow Itanium and take another generation before it runs faster than the hardware emulator? Speaking of which, I would like Intel to release the hardware emulator so I can do benchmarking now.
Having HT in a single package has some advantages, but talk is cheap, and AMD is shipping. I personally hope it works really well and keeps prices down.
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