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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (97430)3/8/2000 9:53:00 AM
From: Scot  Read Replies (4) of 1571427
 
Steve, Anand's has a review up between the Athlon and the "Limited Edition".

Did you see the heat sink on the cpu!!! It's bigger than Andy Grove's cubicle!

anandtech.com

While the 1GHz Athlon couldn?t be overclocked too far because it is simply out of valid clock multipliers, the 1GHz Pentium III wouldn?t make it too far above 1000MHz because of cooling/yield issues. Remember that Intel isn?t mass producing these 1GHz chips, so they can?t be expected to run at the usual 20 ? 50% speed increase that we normally run the Pentium IIIs.

anandtech.com


Conclusion

For content creation applications and games (in most cases), the 1GHz Pentium III is faster than the 1GHz Athlon. Whether this is because specific SSE optimizations or because of the full speed on-die L2 cache of the Pentium III depends on the particular game and/or application, but for the most part the Pentium III will come out on top.

Things change once you enter the professional graphics arena, where the Athlon completely dominates provided that it is paired up with a KX133 motherboard.

For most users, neither of these CPUs is worth the time of day simply because of their cost, whereas overclocking a slower chip to speeds close to 1GHz would make much more sense. For the Pentium III, reaching 1GHz via normal overclocking methods may be a bit difficult, but it has definitely been done before with the Athlon.

BTW, they used a Via Apollo Pro board for this test.....unbelieveable.

Also....looks like the Athlon won on all the Spec (OpenGL) tests run (under NT)...EP, are you listening?

-Scot
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