The Shack posted a quote of John Carmack about the P4 performance (Actually why Q3A is about the only performance test where Intel's P4 can beat the lower clocked AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz)[BLOCK]If I had to hazard a wild guess, I would say that it is because much of Q3's structure is broken up into nice separate phases, like game, cgame, front end, back end. The P4 relies on a trace cache for best performance, and it would have effects in some ways like a smaller instruction cache. It may turn out to be something unrelated, like a better bus interface helping the graphics driver more.

John Carmack[/BLOCK]

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