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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: DRBES who wrote (67021)7/30/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (4) of 1574176
 
Comments on Anands PIII-600 review
(http://www.anandtech.com/html/review_display.cfm?document=1008&pagenum=3)

Undoubtedly the best quote from the review is this one:
There is no doubt about it, Intel accelerated the release of the Pentium III 600 to within days of the physical release of the Athlon 600 processor for the sake of competition. What's AMD?s response? A six, a five, and a zero. Although they may not know it, the ball is in Intel's court now, don't you just love competition?

...clearly implying that AMD is ready to release the 650 right now.

Other points:
1. PIII-600 would not even overclock to 660 on Netshow encoder
2. PIII-600 is NOT 9% faster than the PIII-550; in fact, its only 8.5% faster than a PIII-500! (20% increase in clock speed) Thats for Winstone 99, on Windows NT its even worse, only getting a 7.9% speedup from a 20% boost in clock speed. Significance? It means that the PIII-600 extrapolations which came out to accompany Athlon 600 benchmarks were a little off base. The Athlon 600 will be faster than the PIII-600 in "integer" applications.
3. The PIII-600 scales much better in games and high end (e.g., Netshow Encoder, Photoshop) applications, typically getting a 15% speedup for a 20% clock speed increase. However, the Athlon already has a 30% advantage in FPU performance.

I would say there is sufficient demand for about 2M Athlons in the fourth quarter. The only question is, how many can AMD make?

Petz
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