Let the debates end 2004-06-20 - By Dave Angelini
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Roman,
Thank you for the insight and great summary. I did find an article on the
Prescott, but it goes more into Intel's future direction with processor
development than it does on the Prescott. The article is: "Welcome The
Latecomer: Pentium 4 Prescott 3.4 GHz" found here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040322/index.html
At the end of this article are some rendering time comparisons on various
CPU's for Lightwave, C4D and Max when rendering the same scene. What is
interesting is that the Extreme Edition Pentiums only buy you a 1 or 2
seconds than an equivalent Pentium non-extreme edition CPU....given that
the cost is usually $1000 more, you aren't buying much.
This article came from Tom's Hardware Guide
(http://graphics.tomshardware.com/index.html). A great site in that it
covers more than just PC-hardware.
Thanks,
Dave Angelini
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Roman Ormandy" <roman@(protected)>
To: <truespace@(protected)>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TSML] Let the debates begin
> I do not know details on Prescott but I will render my opinion anyway:)
>
> Last decent CPU Intel has produced was Pentium3 and that was a long time
> ago. Since then very little progress was made by Intel in terms of
> significant increase of performance particularly for 3D applications. In
> comparison, 3D graphics cards improved incredibly during the same time. If
> you look at graphics chips today, they are all highly parallel. Both ATI
> X800 and Nvidia NV40 have 16 pixel shader CPU's and 6 vertex shader CPU's
> all with full floating point.
>
> It would be easy to dismiss graphics CPU's as "special purpose" processors
> were it not for the general purpose parallel CPU's from IBM (which
displaced
> Pentium in XBox2) Sun's Niagara CPU's with 64 cores and now Sony Cell
> processor with possibly even higher level of parallelism.
>
> Intel is finally waking up to this competition, they killed Tejas (a
> successor to Prescott?) in favor of dual core CPU's shipping as early as
> next year. In fact every new CPU Intel will ship next year, including all
> mobile CPU's will be dual core. That is a welcome news to be sure,
question
> is whether it is not too little, too late for Intel.
>
> I am not excited by 64 bit CPU's, either from Intel or from AMD. Next
> generation trueSpace will run far better on a whole bunch of 32 bit cores
> compared to a single 64 bit gigantium CPU. In my opinion 64 bit 6GHz CPU
is
> a dinosaur, soon to be eclipsed by swarms of nimble massively parallel 32
> bit mammals.
>
> Roman
>
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