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To: Saturn V who wrote (89756)	10/8/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: vince doran	Read Replies (2) of 186894

SpecFP and the mighty clouds of joy - (Those who also read the AMD thread please forgive the cross-posting) For all of us trying to pierce the fog around those stunning CUmine benchmarks, JC's page jc-news.com has a very interesting message from a fellow doing some scientific simulation work. He modified his heavily floating point oriented code, running on an Athlon 500, to use the SSE prefetch instructions and voila! Up to 45% increase in performance on data-sets of similar size to those used by SpecFP. So the mystery remains: what will the actual performance of 733 CUmine look like? If Intel's assertion, as reported by Ten, (and by the way let me add my thanks for your great MPF reporting and other analysis) of ~20% imp over PIIIB holds, then the Athlon will be in trouble on many benchmarks. If, on the other hand, the bulk of the improvement was due to compiler-optimization, then the picture is much brighter for AMD. We have all had a couple days to ponder, what do you think? (I consider the estimated 266 FSB Athlon scores to be fighting today's fire with tomorrow's rain; I am mostly concerned with Athlon 700 performance on Oct. 25.) Vacillating, Vince

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