On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:30:39PM -0800, Raystonn wrote: > > OK - so a factor 70 in CPU growth and a factor of 16 in RAM speed. > > No, in this 5 year period, processor clockspeed has moved from approximately > 200MHz to over 2GHz. This is a factor of 10 in CPU growth and 16 in memory > bandwidth. Memory bandwidth is growing more quickly than processor > clockspeed now.
Uhm...you've fallen into Intel's clockspeed trap. I'm assuming that you're talking about a 200MHz Pentium vs. a 2GHz Pentium4. In the best case, the Pentium could issue two instructions at once where as a Pentium4 or Athlon can issue (and retire) many, many more. Not only that, the cycle times of many instructions (such as multiply and divide) has decreased. I 2GHz Pentium would still be crushed by a 2GHz Pentium4. Just like a 200Mhz Pentium would crush a 200Mhz 286. :) -- Tell that to the Marines! _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
