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Prescott will be no faster than Pentium 4

Daniel Fleshbourne Administrator Neowin @dfleshbourne · Jan 7, 2004 06:33 EST with -1 comments

ACE'S HARDWARE has filed another report about Intel's forthcoming Prescott chips and suggests that the main reason for the introduction is to give the chip company a chance to update the clock frequencies in the Pentium 4 family. The article suggests that while the Prescott will have better cache and a slightly improved branch predictor, these effects will probably be "totally negated" by the higher branch misprediction penalty.

Says the article: "This means that some software will not run, clock for clock, faster on the Prescott than on the Northwood P4". It says that a 3.4GHz Prescott will perform similarly to a Northwood 3.4GHz.

View: acehardware report