Some interesting Altivec figures

[Hammer]

Hell M$ of all ppl won't even embrace it and told Intel to change or suck it, basically.

MS Windows Anvil (AMD64 edition) is not quite ready (currently at Beta stage) for RTM status.

MS Windows Anvil is quite different to MS Windows XP Itanium Edition since Anvil is geared towards legacy and high performance gaming. MS Windows XP Itanium Edition is just geared towards PC workstations (e.g.  Itanium Deerfield base systems) type activities.

[Blitter]

MS Windows Anvil (AMD64 edition) is not quite ready (currently at Beta stage) for RTM status.

MS Windows Anvil is quite different to MS Windows XP Itanium Edition since Anvil is geared towards legacy and high performance gaming. MS Windows XP Itanium Edition is just geared towards PC workstations (e.g. Itanium Deerfield base systems) type activities.

I guess that was my point.  The Itamium, which Itel was actaully going to market as a destop CPU... is far from that.  Not only did it NOT meet expectations in the workstation/server market, but it also floundered as a desktop CPU.  Hence the reason why I mention it as being a "Kludge" of a CPU.  Okay, I may have mis-quoted myself there, but I stil stand buy the architecture of the Itanium being ####e!

But that's just my oppinion and I'm entitled to it. :-P

Happy New Year!

[Hammer]

Yes it's definitly as fast as a Barton core Athlon running at 3.2Ghz like the name would describe. but that's just in 32bit operations

Careful with generalisations e.g. in bandwidth bias apps, games and SSE2 type activities the Athlon FX-51 is rivals P4 EE, while Athlon 64 3200+ rivals P4-C 3.2Ghz .

The fastest Athlon XP 3200+ @ 2.33Ghz variant, can still win some non-gaming benchmarks against Athlon FX51 @2.2Ghz.  

[Hammer]

but I stil stand buy the architecture of the Itanium being ####e!

I didn’t say Itanium was a “cost effective” workstation PC btw. In relation to Itanium and for "bang for buck" cases; even Apple’s PowerMac G5 has a chance**

PS; Tweaking for legacy and high performance gaming may require more development time btw...