Fyo, <I can't even think of a single synthetic CPU benchmark where the K6-2/300 beats...>
You seem to have the same extremist's thinking:
"beat", "killer", "leave in the dust".. etc.
As Sanders said, it is not a sprint, it is
a marathon.
On one side, all computers wait at the same rate.
What home PC does 95% of it's time? It waits.
The real productivity of 99% users DOES NOT
DEPEND on the 5-10% performance lead of P-400
versus K6-300. It performs really well, as well
as any P-400,450,500...whatever.
On the other side, a Athlon-550 will exceed any
market-available P-III in every benchmark. In floating
point, a Xeon would need to heat up to 1000MHz to
get up to Athlon-600 results. So what? Do you
really think these things would change buying habits
of public? Not much. To succeed, AMD needs to
offer 3 things: "slightly better", "slightly cheaper"
and "always available". So far they seem to get #1,
while ##2 and 3 are at some question with K7.
With K6 they got #2 but were short of #1 and #3.
The major fight for AMD is still ahead.
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