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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Goutam who wrote (75487)10/14/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: Scot  Read Replies (1) of 1572562
 
Goutama and Thread:

Coppermine Preview at Firingsquad (source of an early K7 preview). Very limited benchmarking (no AGP slot on test MB), but here's the (in)conclusion (with an SI "stay tuned"):

firingsquad.com

Inconclusive
The 0.18 600MHz Coppermine performs almost the same as the 0.25 Katmai P3-600 processor in most of the benchmarks with the exception of Winbench CPUmark which tests the speed of the entire CPU-memory subsystem. We have to admit that we were expecting the Coppermine to perform slightly better because of the faster L2 cache, but only one of the benchmarks we chose to run had the Coppermine outscore the Katmai by a wide margin. We can't really judge how the Coppermine actually performs just by looking at these synthetic benchmarks.

We have to remember that Intel developed the 0.18 Coppermine in order to be able to manufacture Pentium III processors at 600MHz and higher speeds, not to make the P3 equal the Athlon. Anyone that expects Coppermine to bring the Pentium III up to the Athlon level on a MHz for MHz basis might be disappointed.

Stay tuned!
It looks like we're going to get another Coppermine in the very near future. Hopefully, we'll also get a motherboard that has an AGP slot. Then we'll be able to run our own set of "real world" benchmark applications and see how the Coppermine really stacks up against the competition. Only the important ones mind you, Quake 3, Quake 2, maybe a bit of Unreal, Decent 3, and Minesweeper.

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-Scot
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