PPC 970: Apple, Thendic, Eyetech

[THEONE]

Apple is goign Itanium True 64bit and much faster.What the Hombre was goign to use the Parisc. :-D

[THEONE]

Minion wrote:

strobe wrote:
@olegil

Good points but I would also add that the uses of a 64bit CPU are limited especially when dealing with all our legacy titles. If anything it will run 32bit software slower than a comparable 32bit processor.

64bit gives you what, memory addressing over 4Gigabytes? Is this useful? On the other hand AltiVec has a lot of applications especially in multimedia, encryption, networking, encoding, and compressing. None of these things are improved with a 64bit CPU.

I'd put a lot of money on the fact that the PPC970 will run 32 bit PPC software a lot faster than any PPC CPU today, not because it is 64bit, but because it is a much faster and more powerful CPU.  You will most likely find that it runs 64 bit software SLOWER than 32 bit software, most likely about 5% slower (quoted form some CPU designer guy).

The point is who cares, 64 bit is a nice buzzword that gets people to buy stuff (presumably thinking 64 bit=twice as fast as 32 bit)
A 64 bit CPU has nothing to do with memory = thats the memory interface that deals with that.  Remember the EC020 that came with the A1200?  That was a 32 bit CPU with 24 bit adressing so it could address 2^24 = 167777216bytes or 16 MB of RAM.  If you want to just talk bits, then bare in mind that the Pentium4 has some internal parts that run at 256 Bit and I believe the AthlonXP in parts runs at 512.  A 64 bit CPu in this sense deals with accuracy - it can deal with 2^32 (ie 4 billion) times the number of integers of a 32 bit CPU.

wrong wrogn wrong

ever seen wintrek run on a 486 from win 95 it was made for win 3.11 . It ran so dam fast I couldnt play it . Data will be goign in so to dam fast on the Hombre clone. Add to the fact that you have 8 cpus cores on each chip.  ther is speed.  Its evdent in all the othergames that you play like the earleir A500 games on a a4000 oh yeah im sure it goersslower on an A4000 sure whatever.

[THEONE]

And the Altivec is 128bit.

wrong wrong wrong
dam emmulated dam guys you admit one thing then not another double stnadard here. Im suprisde you dont call the G4 a 128bit.

[THEONE]

Minion wrote:

THEONE wrote:
Lots of crap

You're as thick as two short planks, aren't you.  You just dont get it. :-?  :-?  :-?

nope you dont get it you dont have the #### that god gave a snake for brains. ppc is dead so who cares . motorola deosnt ,Ibm doesnt,and Mac doesnt. itanium is where everyone is going. And what I explained is the way you guys think . Besides if you are lookig for speed then dammit man look at the itanium.  its been in the advance server area fro a while. soon to be cheap enough for end users. Its goign to hit the streets at 6ghz real-time. oh thisChrismas or by the end of feburary . MERRY CHRISTMAS :-D

[THEONE]

Thats it im goign to get that coleco adam and have the best computer around . SO STICK THAT IN  YOU PIPE AND SMOKE IT.

 :-P  :-D  :-)  :roll:  :lol:  :idea:  :roflmao:  :python:

[THEONE]

AmigaMac wrote:

nope you dont get it you dont have the #### that god gave a snake for brains. ppc is dead so who cares . motorola deosnt ,Ibm doesnt,and Mac doesnt.

Yeah we've heard that conspiracy theory before!  PPC is far from dead!!

itanium is where everyone is going. And what I explained is the way you guys think . Besides if you are lookig for speed then dammit man look at the itanium. its been in the advance server area fro a while. soon to be cheap enough for end users. Its goign to hit the streets at 6ghz real-time. oh thisChrismas or by the end of feburary . MERRY CHRISTMAS

Ah the Itanic... the chip that can't get out of its own way (much less anything else)!  You need to get with the facts, that Itanic isn't going to reach 6 GHz anytime soon, but hey at least you're overly optimistic :-P

i called hp and ibm and redhat to confirm all this just today and yesterday . Go by intels website or go onto a website if you dont belive me.
glad your in good cheer
we must move on to a better cpu    PARIC=ITANIUM