Pentium 4: More speed in the pipeline

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Guru
Heard that the P4 800fsb will cost ~ 20€ more then the same 400/533 models!

that's encouragin :-)
The P4 lives and shines with LOTS of MHz

[WyWyWyWy]

IIRC amd said the first A64 will be 800MHz at US$1099, not sure if thats retail price or price of 1000.

I think, like Itanium, it is just not meant to be for consumers...

In terms of Pi calculation or something like that, I doubt the 800MHz A64 would be faster than the (then) fastest Xeon...

[Novdid]

Wy, I think you got something wrong.

If you talk about bus speeds, AMD doesn't use a conventional bus with the A64. If you talk about core frequency, then 800MHz are the speed of which the Sledgehammer (opteron) samples ran at last spring. I say you should expect far higher frequencies than that at launch. And that's the Opteron, the Athlon 64 should run a fair bit faster!

[WyWyWyWy]

Yes you are right and I was confused, sorry.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Damn i wondered when P4's architecuture will reach its clock limit...

[Wombat]

Don't worry, when it does, Intel will double the pipeline length again, up the clock by 80%, and call it the Pentium5

[Novdid]

No doubt!

[Guru]

There is a yer old article on anandtech where they show an air cooled p4 @ 10GHz!