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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (66903)	7/29/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: fyo	Read Replies (2) of 1574537

Tench - Re: Somehow, I doubt that a 40% increase in FPU alone will contribute to the same 30% increase in Quake 2 that we saw between Pentium MMX and Pentium II. Well now, that seems to be about the numbers I have seen. Nevertheless, I think we are getting somewhat sidetracked here(or maybe I just want to get sidetracked...). What defines 7th generation technology? Or rather, what can be included in such a definition in the PC world? The Athlon design does introduce many new things - just as the PPRO did. Many of these things cannot be immediately capitalized on - just as was the case with the PPRO. One of these is the 200MHz bus. Clearly, the Athlon stands to benefit more from faster (main) memory than does Intel's P6 design. There is also the point-to-point aspect, which should make SMP systems scale better. To go back to the MDR article for a second: It was complete rubbish. I'm sorry, but that is my personal opinion of it. No matter if you think that the Athlon is more 6th than 7th generation, the article was still poorly constructed and failed utterly in an attempt to set up rigid parameters to measure 'generationivity'. --fyodor

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