> > > 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. :)
Yes, some details were left out of CPU performance increases. The same was done for memory performance increases though. We have been discussing memory bandwidth as memory performance, completely leaving out memory latency, which has also improved tremendously. -Raystonn _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel