[Ti] A real world comparison

[Richard Meyeroff]

Does SSE 3 Exist in silicon or only on paper?


>On Jun 12, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Richard Meyeroff wrote:
>
>>I would like to know if anyone has made an in depth evaluation of 
>>the difference between SSE3 & the Altivec implimentations in the 
>>G4+ and the 970?
>>
>>This to me appears to be where Intel falls short.  They appear to 
>>do better in Interger computation, the reason that Mathematica did 
>>so well, but fall short by a wide margin in the vector, the 
>>strength of the PPC platform.
>
>That's exactly what I'm trying to determine.  I'm going to use some 
>PowerPC vectorized benchmark code ported to x86 to determine the 
>viability of the x86 platform for our own use.  I haven't paid too 
>much attention to the x86 branch of Darwin because I always figured 
>it was insignificant.  Now I have to play catchup just to get it 
>current :-(
>
>BTW - I successfully booted 8.0.1 (x86 Tiger core) on an AMD Athlon 
>2600 with an Asus A7N8X just to see if it would.  It did.
>--
>Chris

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