While a die shrink will hopefully allow AMD to further increrase clockspeeds, there's no guarantee that AMD will be able to increase clock speeds to those of the P4. Indeed, the Northwood is a pretty good overclocker, which suggests that Intel could easily sell those overclocked CPU's AS P4 2.6-3 ghz.
While I fully expect AMD Athlon XP to reach speeds of approaching 2ghz in real terms in the next 3-6 months, I don't know that Intel won't be able to keep pace performance-wise. Hammer adds even more cloudiness to the picture as, according to AMD's roadmaps it will intro at PR3400 and rapidly ramp up in performance.
I think Intel may be holding back on us and may evben pull more than a couple aces out of their sleeves speed-wise...say... 3500 mhz at around year end.
Mark-
When all else fails, throw your computer out the window!!!
While I fully expect AMD Athlon XP to reach speeds of approaching 2ghz in real terms in the next 3-6 months, I don't know that Intel won't be able to keep pace performance-wise. Hammer adds even more cloudiness to the picture as, according to AMD's roadmaps it will intro at PR3400 and rapidly ramp up in performance.
I think Intel may be holding back on us and may evben pull more than a couple aces out of their sleeves speed-wise...say... 3500 mhz at around year end.
Mark-
When all else fails, throw your computer out the window!!!
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram