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Post by the Black Monarch » Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:40 pm

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Easy. The EE has too long a pipeline. The pipeline would be optimal for a 5GHz proc, but instead, it's on a 3.4, and requires redundant instruction sets to accomplish work that could have been handled already.
Last time I checked, the EEs had bigger caches, not bigger pipelines...
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Post by NicholasDWolfwood » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:47 am

the Black Monarch wrote:
RootHubController wrote:
Easy. The EE has too long a pipeline. The pipeline would be optimal for a 5GHz proc, but instead, it's on a 3.4, and requires redundant instruction sets to accomplish work that could have been handled already.
Last time I checked, the EEs had bigger caches, not bigger pipelines...
Last time I checked, all Pentium 4s had longer pipelines, even the EE.
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Post by Scintilla » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:53 am

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:
the Black Monarch wrote:
RootHubController wrote:
Easy. The EE has too long a pipeline. The pipeline would be optimal for a 5GHz proc, but instead, it's on a 3.4, and requires redundant instruction sets to accomplish work that could have been handled already.
Last time I checked, the EEs had bigger caches, not bigger pipelines...
Last time I checked, all Pentium 4s had longer pipelines, even the EE.
Last time I checked, Prescott's pipeline was at least 10 stages longer than Northwood's, so basically some P4s (including the EEs) are more equal than others. :)
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Post by Knowname » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:34 pm

Scintilla wrote:
NicholasDWolfwood wrote:
the Black Monarch wrote:
RootHubController wrote:
Easy. The EE has too long a pipeline. The pipeline would be optimal for a 5GHz proc, but instead, it's on a 3.4, and requires redundant instruction sets to accomplish work that could have been handled already.
Last time I checked, the EEs had bigger caches, not bigger pipelines...
Last time I checked, all Pentium 4s had longer pipelines, even the EE.
Last time I checked, Prescott's pipeline was at least 10 stages longer than Northwood's, so basically some P4s (including the EEs) are more equal than others. :)
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