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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (66985)7/30/1999 11:11:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1586981
 
Re: "Suppose that Intel built an SSE version of SPEC which gave them a 50% boost. AMD will be able to do the same thing with 3DNow! and jump back into a huge lead. This kind of trickery will not work for Intel."

That point has been tossed around before. I am no expert in this area but I thought the conclusion was that the 3DNOW instructions in the K7 would not offer better performance then the already optimized K7 FPU. As a matter of fact, Intel's use of the SIMD registers was widely speculated on for a possible means for Intel to match the K7 FPU performance. Why the surprise now? This is not a smoke and mirrors benchmark thing if the optimizing compilers support it.

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