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Lewis Sellers wrote:
> gilberto wrote:
> >
> > Are Povray team planning a K6-2 3DNow! optimization ?
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> The K7's should be fun. Dual K7 800mhz. yummy. :)
>
> Anyone noticed that Intel cpu's are slower than alpha's, powerpc g3's
> and amd's? <laughter>
I did.
>
> Must have spent all their money on those flashy commercials and didn't
> have anything for r&d.
>
I'm with you.
>
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KillFile wrote:
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> (though AMD looks like they may finally fix this in the next gen)
Yea. Looks like the k7's will have 2 to 4 times the fpu power of the
closest intel designs. :)
> KillFile
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Is that really so? I am going to buy a new machine soon and was inclined
to get a Celeron A as a relatively cheap alternative with a fast FPU. If
what you say is true, I will go for the K7 anytime!
Margus
Lewis Sellers wrote:
>
> Yea. Looks like the k7's will have 2 to 4 times the fpu power of the
> closest intel designs. :)
>
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Aahh... Sorry about speaking before checking. Appears the K7 won't be
cheap at all! Oh well...
Margus
Margus Ramst wrote:
> I will go for the K7 anytime!
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Lewis Sellers <lse### [at] usitnet> wrote in article
<365ABD42.CB8044B7@usit.net>...
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>
> gilberto wrote:
> >
> > Are Povray team planning a K6-2 3DNow! optimization ?
>
> The K7's should be fun. Dual K7 800mhz. yummy. :)
>
> Anyone noticed that Intel cpu's are slower than alpha's, powerpc g3's
> and amd's? <laughter>
> Must have spent all their money on those flashy commercials and didn't
> have anything for r&d.
>
Slower in what way ? Mhz, Flops, Instructions per second, what ?
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Scott Hill wrote:
> Slower in what way ? Mhz, Flops, Instructions per second, what ?
Slower than K7's advertising department ?
Ken Tyler
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Miguel Alvarez Rodriguez wrote in message
<3662F9CF.788D09CC@abonados.cplus.es>...
>Lewis Sellers wrote:
>> Must have spent all their money on those flashy commercials and didn't
>> have anything for r&d.
>>
>
>I'm with you.
>
And those cool suits! In outfits like that, they must have fast chips...
Or way too much free time... He He.
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Just a word about it... AFAIK, the 3DNow! instructions work on
single-precision floating point numbers only. If so, that's not quite enough
for POVRay to get accurate results, so double-precision must be used. Anyone
has more info on this?
Luis Alberto Rojas M.
lro### [at] puccl
gilberto wrote in message <01be14fc$3407e7c0$60f4ffc8@e5z9e8>...
>Are Povray team planning a K6-2 3DNow! optimization ?
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In article <365EFB8E.F137BDB3@usit.net>, Lewis Sellers <lse### [at] usitnet>
wrote:
> Spider wrote:
> > Hmm... That has anything to do with RISC instructions ???
> > While alpha have reduced the number of instructions, intel has
increased... ttt..
> > //Spider
> Most likely so. Intel seems to be going the route of adding more
> "proprietary" instructions to their chips in an attempt to control the
> market. The effect is their processors are getting more complex, but it
> is complexity for complexities sake -- not for increasing their
> processing power.
> I think this is starting to backfire on them somewhat.
Alphas have very accelerated clocks but it doesn't translate directly
to efficiency- it's sort of like they are in a lower gear revving away
like mad.
PPCs have simpler instruction sets and an emphasis on a kajillion
registers, all general-purpose, and though they run a bit slower than x86
clock-wise they depend on the fact that they're easier for a compiler to
optimize for (less special cases and fancy tricks that aren't generally
useful, more registers which are more adaptable)
:)
Chris Johnson
@airwindows.com
chrisj
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