[Vertigo1]

http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/937/3.html

800MHz Clawhammer stomps 1.6GHz P4

Now if only they'll start playing the MHz game that Intel's playing, they'll start getting more sales.

[Redfang]

Already read that...
 
Hammer seems to be pretty good in 32-bit applications too. And that's not final version, and has only 256kb L2 cache, final should have 512kb... and more megahertz.
 
But that seems to be one powerful processor, if AMD can get it to 2+ Ghz, it will be very fast.

[Zeronet]

By 1 frame and anyone, it doesnt stomp my P4 1.8ghz .

[Vertigo1]

Can you imagine a dual hammer system?

[Redfang]

Originally posted by MD-2389
Can you imagine a dual hammer system?

 
Bah... doesn't help in things I do.
 
I think you can only have 1 processor Clawhammer system, but Sledgehammer systems can have 8 processors (not sure ).

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Zeronet
By 1 frame and anyone, it doesnt stomp my P4 1.8ghz .

Take note, the Pentium has to double the chip speed and more than double the memory speed to get to within one FPS.  Let's face it Intel's time at the top end of performance systems is rapidly coming to an end.

[aldo_14]

Intels design is increasingl;y motivated to offer high megahertz rating over actual performance.  It's not exactly a shock to find the Pentiums are slow, especially with that pipeline.

[wEvil]

That's a knobbled hammer.

For a start it only runs at 800Mhz, has no SSE2, a semi functional 64-bit instruction set and probably no fancy features like superbypass (actually..scratch that, the hammer bus doesnt need it!) and hardware prefetching.

ANYTHING stomps a 1.6g P4 *ROFLMAO*

The hammer will probably have about 50-60% performance advantage over an identically clocked athlon XP.  in 32 BIT instructions.

Plus the hammer has a great memory system...the memory controller is on the processor die itself meaning if you add another processor you add another northbridge and double your memory bandwidth (you'll probably need seperate DIMM banks per CPU though...thats the problem with NUMA)

I'm looking to get a 4-way for rendering showreels out next year...course I wont own it..i'm hoping everyone will chip in, but anyway...64-bit Mentalray on a quad hammer...yummy

[an0n]

Originally posted by wEvil
That's a knobbled hammer.

For a start it only runs at 800Mhz, has no SSE2, a semi functional 64-bit instruction set and probably no fancy features like superbypass (actually..scratch that, the hammer bus doesnt need it!) and hardware prefetching.

ANYTHING stomps a 1.6g P4 *ROFLMAO*

The hammer will probably have about 50-60% performance advantage over an identically clocked athlon XP.  in 32 BIT instructions.

Plus the hammer has a great memory system...the memory controller is on the processor die itself meaning if you add another processor you add another northbridge and double your memory bandwidth (you'll probably need seperate DIMM banks per CPU though...thats the problem with NUMA)

I'm looking to get a 4-way for rendering showreels out next year...course I wont own it..i'm hoping everyone will chip in, but anyway...64-bit Mentalray on a quad hammer...yummy

Should I be worried that I didn't understand any of that?

[Stryke 9]

[stumbles in, dragging own left leg and most of the rest of someone else behind]

Groonhh.... BRAINS!

[drops body parts, hops over to wEvil, and begins eating his brain]

[an0n]

*attacks aldo, mauling his limbs to prevent escape*

*cracks open aldo's skull with a spoon and scoops out the squishy grey stuff inside*

[Stryke 9]

[moves on to attack MD, as Zeronet and Redfang attempt to flee]

[an0n]

*beats RedFang to death with aldo's skull and eats his brains*

[Stryke 9]

[throws MD's body at Zeronet just as Zeronet reaches exit, tripping him up]

[MD doesn't chow down, so Stryke does]

[an0n]

*skins Liberator and makes a nice zombie rug on which to sit and chow down on Lib's brains*

[Stryke 9]

[passes the ketchup]

[stumbles out exit]

[an0n]

*drinks the ketchup*

*spikes the punch and leaves*

[Vertigo1]

Originally posted by wEvil
That's a knobbled hammer.

For a start it only runs at 800Mhz, has no SSE2, a semi functional 64-bit instruction set and probably no fancy features like superbypass (actually..scratch that, the hammer bus doesnt need it!) and hardware prefetching.

ANYTHING stomps a 1.6g P4 *ROFLMAO*

The hammer will probably have about 50-60% performance advantage over an identically clocked athlon XP.  in 32 BIT instructions.

Plus the hammer has a great memory system...the memory controller is on the processor die itself meaning if you add another processor you add another northbridge and double your memory bandwidth (you'll probably need seperate DIMM banks per CPU though...thats the problem with NUMA)

I'm looking to get a 4-way for rendering showreels out next year...course I wont own it..i'm hoping everyone will chip in, but anyway...64-bit Mentalray on a quad hammer...yummy

For a pre-production processor and motherboard, it did pretty damn good.  Intel needs to get cooking to even have a chance against the hammer.