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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: grok who wrote (68141)8/9/1999 5:00:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1578499
 
<If anyone has read them all could they post a cumulative scorecard of how many benchmarks won by K7 and how many by PIII?>

I think the race will become clearer as the smoke from Athlon's introduction fades away. Most of the benchmarks out there vary widely in their results, yet none of the web sites were very comprehensive in their tests. Even Tom's Hardware Guide, a site I usually trust when it comes to comprehensiveness, had a pretty disorganized suite of benchmark tests. (He promised us a more complete CPU comparison later.)

In any case, the general consensus is that clock-for-clock, Athlon is slightly faster than Pentium III in integer and office apps, and moderately faster in floating-point and 3D. I did see a few benchmarks where Athlon fell behind Pentium III, but they were either disk benchmarks (more of a chipset than a processor issue) or benchmarks using SSE (no surprise, even though SSE-less Athlon came very close).

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