P4 1.33 GHz

[Hit]

It is my understanding that the P4 1.33 GHz will be introduced soon, to fill a gap in the Intel road map. I also understand that the P4 is under scrutiny over the lack luster performance in some, if not most, common benchmarks.

I would like to hear some speculation from some of the more knowledgeable on the prospect of a P4 1.33 GHz that may not perform as well as the P3 1.0 GHz. If the scrutiny continues and is compounded by this scenario, what will become of the P4? Rather what would be the business and consumer outlook for the P4? And finally what will this mean for some of the competing processors like the Crusoe, Athlon, and G4?

 

[lrmv]

P4 will start to perform better as soon as software gets recompiled for it. This was required for older Pentium versions too...

 

[Guest]

Well...1.3Ghz P4 should be able to do some pretty sweet overclocking I think

at a multiplier of 13, this little P4 might go as far as 1.7Ghz (assuming the FSB can actually do 133Mhz.....ooh! barbecue 😛)

 

[Hit]

Thanks for your response Irmv. But I was looking for more of a political/economical answer. This P4 1.33 GHz may not even be an issue. However, the P3 1.33 GHz has been replaced by the new P4, is this of any significance?

 

[Guest]

1.33GHz = 1333MHz which would need a 13-and-one-third multiplier of the 100MHz bus... I thought that you only got Nx, N.25x, N.5x and N.75x on most motherboards? Pushing the P4's base bus speed to 133MHz would push the percieved bus speed to 533Mhz... is this correct? Maybe you're thinking of 1.3GHz which I've read about (1300MHz)

 

[ajmcgarry]

And developers are just going to recompile all there current software for P4...... I sincerely doubt it.

At best if there is a significant advantage from both a technical and a marketing side new products may appear on the shelves in different compile formats. Or in the advent of DVD-ROM maybe on the one disk.

But what happens then when the Hammers from AMD come out....
I don't think there is any plausible reason to do this. All that cost and no extra profit.


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[lrmv]

Developers may not recompile the software just because of the new CPU, but once compilers are updated and new software is written, this software will automatically take advantage of the new CPU.
BTW. there is a service pack available for MS Visual C++ 6 (SP4) that includes optimisations for both K7 and P4!
Just in case you wish to write P4 optimised soft...
:tongue:

 

[Hit]

Thank you all for your responses. I have definitely learned something. I was mistaken when referring to the slower P4 as 1.33GHz it should be 1.3GHz.

Any way, I must conclude after more than 80 hits on this topic that the 1.3Ghz P4 replacing the P3 of the same clock is not an issue. Even though the P4 may or may not outperform the P3. This, of course, is depending on software optimization.

My intent for this topic was to dig into the marketing and economics of CPU performance. As we all know PC sales are down. Consumers and businesses are not ready to upgrade, even with the passing year being profitable. Now there is talk of economic slowdown and from what I can tell it all started with Intel's warning in Q3. I can speculate on my own but, I was hoping that someone that knows the business or the hardware could keep me on solid ground.

Thanks