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Subject: Re: Makes me wonder.....
Name:
 ludicrous
Date: 1/15/2002 10:42:09 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 138.67.74.229
In Reply to: Makes me wonder..... posted by
Chris
Message:
From the various reviews I have read, the P4/DDR scores even with P4/RDR in some applications and a little slower in others, and the P4/RDR scores about even with the AXP/DDR in some applications and a little slower in others.
You can probably extrapolate the P4/DDR-AXP/DDR results from there 
Keep in mind, too, that the P4 was designed for a dual-channel Rambus architecture, the Athlon was not. The P4 can actually use the bandwidth provided by the two channels, and the two channels do a credible job of masking Rambus' latency issues.
I'm betting that the Athlon would do "all right" with a well-designed dual-channel Rambus chipset, but that it would probably be a bit slower than DDR. But I'm not a chip architect, that's just an educated guess based on the various articles and whitepapers I have read 
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