nFury8
12th November 2003, 10:06
I've read tons of CPU benchmarks and reviews, and this is one area where the Athlon has always got its butt kicked. I know that the P4's have a 20-stage pipeline, but most of the reviews I've read do not really explain in a revealing manner why video encoding just zips by in the Netburst architecture as opposed to the Athlon's. What I don't understand is: since the Athlon has always had more IPC's than Pentiums, isn't it even more easier to beat it in streaming data since its just a predictable and linear process? And even more so since Athlons only have a 10(or 12)-stage pipeline? I suppose one way of questioning it is: How do these two (Netburst-long pipeline and video encoding) work so well together along the way? All insults, mockeries and jeers are welcome as long as I end up enlightened. :)