On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:39:28 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

>In article <2naq2vsm7uh5urj230qfohibje9g1dqdts@4ax.com> , Scott Moore 
><noo### [at] nospamcom>  wrote:
>
>> Came across this article http://www.ct.heise.de/ct/english/02/26/018/
>> that tests AMD's 64bit CPU against Athlon XP and Pentium 4. POVRay was
>> among the other apps in the test. See table at the end for results.
>
>That way one will miss the most important point of the article!!!
>
>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!

Umm ... I assumed people would actually read the article too.

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