Author: JT Smith
32bitsonline: “Nothing epitomizes the out of touch excess more than the Pentium 4. It’s huge die sizes means that it would not be a competitively priced
with Athlon processors and the sibling Pentium III. It’s 20 stage hyperpipelined design was maximized for sheer MHz, not efficient,
instructions per cycle processing. As a result, running on present real world applications, a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 is slower than a 1.2GHz
Athlon, and in some cases, a 1GHz Pentium III. All for much more bucks. Because of a political—not necessarily for the consumer’s best
interest—it had to be tied to a RAMBUS memory system that still costs 3 times more than an SDRAM equivalent.”
with Athlon processors and the sibling Pentium III. It’s 20 stage hyperpipelined design was maximized for sheer MHz, not efficient,
instructions per cycle processing. As a result, running on present real world applications, a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 is slower than a 1.2GHz
Athlon, and in some cases, a 1GHz Pentium III. All for much more bucks. Because of a political—not necessarily for the consumer’s best
interest—it had to be tied to a RAMBUS memory system that still costs 3 times more than an SDRAM equivalent.”
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