Prescott could reach 5GHZ... D@mn!

[Ray Austin]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,895536,00.asp

Plus new added features to the chip including a megabyte of level 2 cache a new and inproved HT possibly among other things.


Of course this may come crashing down if the Hammer has it's way.

[Dr Mordrid]

Either (or both) way(s) programs like MSPro7 will have plenty of horsepower to do their thing with

Dr. Mordrid

[JackHu]

Any ideas when it will be released?

[Dr Mordrid]

Not soon enough

I've read reports on various hardware sites that a 3-4 ghz Prescott using 90nm dies is due for late 2003 with faster chips coming later.

Dr. Mordrid

[Hulk]

I think we're going to see a significant increase in performance in MS Pro and TMPGENc with the 3.06 HT P4 which is available NOW.

Prescott which will be released later this year at around 3.5GHz will include 13 new instructions, one of which is dedicated to video compression, and a 1MB L2 cache.

In addition, these cpu's will utilize a 533MHz or 800MHz fsb and dual channel DDR400 memory architecture.

We will soon see the current MS Pro test running at real-time frame rates and better.

A lot of Prescott's release dates and speeds will probably be tied to Hammer's release and performance. Hopefully we'll get into another clock speed race like we saw in late 1999-2000 when Athlon and PIII coppermine were "jumping" one another every few months.