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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (80333)11/17/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1572299
 
Re: "Elmer, Gamespot must really be screwed up, here's what I found trying to verify their benchmark results."

I guess it's becoming obvious that it's essentially impossible to come up with a set of PC benchmarks that can be used to conclusively compare Intel and AMD processors. Clearly both processors can be shown to be the fastest depending on who is doing the benchmarks and under what conditions using which drivers, chipsets, compilers etc etc. I expect AMD to regain the apparent lead sometime in the next quarter, only to be bested again by Intel a short time later and so on and so on. Neither demonstrating a dominating lead. What we need to see is how Athlon does with the advantage of new compiler technology followed by how the CuMine does with huge on-die L2, 512k, 1Meg & 2Meg+ as well as possible boosts to the L1 size. Athlon will benefit from chipset evolution and larger on die cache but I don't think they will be able to match the size Intel will produce. I also don't think AMD will run away with the MHz crown as some expect, in fact I think they will be hard pressed to keep up with Intel. We'll see who turns out to be right. Just the threat of Intel extending the x86 to 64 bits could be devestating to the K8 so AMD had better have a next generation 32bit in the works, just in case. They have given Intel the power to turn their lights out.

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