P4 @ 3.5ghz

[isochar]

Looks like that 4ghz processor will be coming next year.

In the same speech, he showed off a 3.5GHz Pentium 4 running the computer game "Quake 3" and managing four different video streams simultaneously. The Pentium 4 demonstration didn't depend on Hyper-Threading; instead, it came out as part of Intel's effort to show how consumers and software developers will continue to need faster PCs.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096274,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02

[Kosh Naranek]

Damn Nice !

[Greebe]

2 x 1.7 = 3.5gHz

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edit... Hyper-Threading effectively simulates a cpu running at 3.5gHz, not that a cpu is actually running these speeds

[ayoub_ibrahim]

damn nice, getting one tomorrow!

[Nuno]

A bit innacurate as for them to be able to run the Q3 demo they had it at 3.0 Ghz, but impressive anyways. It´s nice to know there are 3.5 Ghz cpu floating around

[Kosh Naranek]

I'm looking forward to jackson / HyperThreading.
Especially when it gets a boost from Alpha Technology.

[Wombat]

I'm not that impressed

Wait a minute, so if we recompile our programs for a new architecture, we get a speed boost?




uhh, where's the surprise? That's got to be one of the most obvious things about the current state of processors. It's not that we can't go fast, it's that we can't run old code fast. If they wanted a speed demon, take the Athlon, rip off that cumbersome front side translation unit, compile code for its native environment, and watch the fur fly.

It sounds like they're showing off multiple register banks, something that at least the UltraSparc II had.


And, for one more hole in the already light article: McKinley was already shown at the Intel Developers' Conference, in January. Running Windows, Linux, and HP-UX.

[Nuno]

BTW, did anyone notice the HUGE improvement on Palomino performance over thunderbird with professional apps (SSE ehanced?)

http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/palomino/6.shtml

Most impressive. Up to 90% on Caligari and 67% on Photoshop. Wait it´s 8% faster on Quake3 too!

[Wombat]

Nifty article, but they're missing something. I wish they'd run the non-SSE versions of the code on the Palomino. Don't forget that the caching structure was changed slightly as well, and I wonder if that doesn't at least account for the programs with small percentages of improvement.

[Bubba Feelgood]

Isn't it obvious: Intel's marketing managers and speech writers used to work for tobacco companies.

[Indiana]

Originally posted by Bubba Feelgood
Isn't it obvious: Intel's marketing managers and speech writers used to work for tobacco companies.

Yeah, independant studies have shown that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer. Signed "Dr. Marlboro".......

[PeTe]

Greebe,

They had a P4 processor RUNNING at 3.5G WITH hypertread.. not a 1.7G P4 with hyperthread.. 3.5G is closer than you think.. Just last night i read about HC-o'cers from japan getting the 2G P4 to 3.027G with super cooling. Just imagine what kind of engineering samples INTEL might have from their own labs.. 3-3.5G is pretty darn easy for those guys.

Here's a link to the japans o'cers site...

http://holicho.lib.net/top.htm

PeTe

[ALBPM]

Give PeTe a cigar, he's pretty darn close.

The 3.5Ghz is real!! 0.13micron , copper back-end.

If you don't believe it you'll be having to change your shorts SOON!!!!!

Paul

[KvHagedorn]

Just because I can pedal an exercycle and the gauge reads 50mph doesn't mean that I'm necessarily getting anywhere.

Just because an engine revs at 8500RPM doesn't make it more powerful.

etc. etc.

I'm amazed at how intelligent people buy into the lies of Intel's marketing department! I thought that that GHz bull$hit was aimed at selling lots of computers to the ignorant masses who couldn't tell a GHz from a GFlop..

Those who work for T.E.E. are excused from this judgement. I know that the company is run by marketing sleazebags, not engineers. Too bad Intel actually had to step backwards from a design so excellent that it has lasted 6 years. The P6 core and BX/GX chipsets are absolutely wonderful technology. The Pentium 4 could have been much better, and Itanium requires such intensive optimization that it will be on its last legs before much software can take advantage of it. It remains to be seen whether they can bully everyone into accepting IA64..

AMD has its faults as well, most certainly.. but the Athlon remains a better design because AMD's engineers made it so. The lack of any real marketing department there allowed it to be produced without compromising the design. The lack of any real marketing department there also allows the lies of Intel's overbearing marketing department to go unchallenged.

By the way, Hammer is much closer than you think as well; it will be interesting to see how the next round is played out. Amazing what competition brings to the consumer, isn't it? It wasn't very long ago at all when we had to pay thousands of dollars for a machine that would barely do word processing and spreadsheets. Now, for a fraction of that, we can have a machine that would put a Cray2 to shame. Fun stuff

[KvHagedorn]

Gosh, Paul, you're up late.. hope they aren't making you burn the 3am oil down there!