Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> They clearly say in the text that the Athlon 64 is a development version
> clocked only at 1.2 GHz while AMD will ship with 2 GHz.  So you have to
> multiply all (POV-Ray) results by 1.6 and not jump to conclusions based on
> raw numbers without knowing the context!

  I'm sure you know that doubling the CPU clock rate does not double the
speed of programs (not even if they are very CPU-intensive), so a factor
of 1.6 may be way too optimistic.

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