Wow.

I did not expect to get so many posts before I even show up for work.

Looking at all the replies, one potential explanation for some of the 'better' precision numbers for GETDATE() might be possible.

64 bit OS.

Looks like whoever run the tests on 64 bit OS got the 3.33 ms precision and whoever run it on 32 bit got ~16 ms presicion.

If anyone of you got the 3.33 ms on a 32 bit box please reply with more specifics on the OS, CPU and SQL Server version. I don't think anything else could explain the difference. I did to run the tests on different configurations but I have to admit I did not have access to a 64 bit OS.