Fwd: Re: clock cycles

[Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>]

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From: Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>
To: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: clock cycles
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 05:10:50 +0100 (BST)

First of all Thanks a lot for help

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 --- Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net> wrote: 
> >
> Not exactly.  The processor speed is an indication
> of how fast it can 
> carry out instructions, but on CISC (complex
> instruction set computing) 
> computers (x86, x86-64) some instructions take more
> than one clock cycle 
> to complete.  Intel has pushed the clock speed (as
> much for marketing as 
> for any other reason - AMD produces processors that
> can do comparable 
> work at a lower clock speed) 

Sorry could not understand this. What is making AMD
processors work faster than Intel processors at a
lower clock cycle. also i want to know how to prove
this that AMD 64 bit processors will work faster than
Intel 32 bit processor even if they have clock cycles
like 3.6 GHz....

>just about as far as it
> can go - they are 
> having severe problems with manufaturing the 3.6 GHz
> chips.
> It is only an accurate speed comparison between
> chips in the same 
> processor family - the last of the Pentium 3 chips
> were actually faster 
> than the higher-clocked early Pentium 4 releases -
> and it's been that 

Hows that? /is it due to higher clock cycles in P3 and
less no. of transistor in early P4?


Well definately PowerPC's are faster than Intel. i do
agree. Some what i feel a day will come when CISC
processors will find difficult to servive...

Thanks again

ANkit Jain


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