| HappySqurriel said: I don't think you really understand what you're talking about; it is a well known fact that G3, G4 and G5 PowerPC processors were far faster than their Pentium 2, Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 counterparts at the same clockspeed. It wasn't until Intel released the Prescot 2M core in Early 2005 that the Pentium 4 line became competative with other processor lines at similar clockspeeds; at 2.8 GHz the Prescott core was considered 'equal' to the Willamette core at 6.2GHz which is why it was named Pentium 4 HT 620. |
If i understand the purpose of your post, i am sick just by reading it because it is oversimplistic ...
Nothing related to you, because you do know that things are not as simple : when you want to define the 'power' of a CPU, 'Mhz' are only a part of the equation.
On your post, if you neglate that the pentium IV CPUs where engeneered for the increase of the pipeline length, implying the increase of the frequency of the CPU, all you say is perfectly correct.
My point is you cannot compare the PowerPC or the athlon XP architectures to that of Pentium IV at the same frequency, because this one was targeted to run 'faster' than those 2.
The only problem Intel had with this is that they could not meet the yields to sustain their roadmap ... If i recon correctly, today we would be at 7 GHz !
