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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (65914)	7/19/1999 12:44:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1576307

<Single Athlon FASTER than DUAL PIII> Look again at the benchmarks, Cirrus: firingsquad.com firingsquad.com firingsquad.com Quake III does seem to take advantage of dual processor systems, but the improvement ranges somewhere between 4% and 21%. The worst-case scenario is, of course, a Celeron at high frequencies because its 128K L2 cache just doesn't scale well in multiprocessor environments. The best-case scenario is, of course, a Pentium III, which is better in multiprocessing. And this is only for the low 640x480 resolution. As you go to higher resolutions, the second processor becomes more and more useless, up to the point where the TNT2 Ultra card becomes the limiting factor. Yes, a single Athlon beating a dual Pentium III system is news indeed, at least for Quake III. But a second processor never bought that much more Quake III performance anyway compared to single-processor systems. This isn't servers we're talking about. Quake III is much like a workstation-like application. And as I suspected in the past, Athlon should do especially well in the graphics workstation niche, where FPU power is key. Tenchusatsu

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