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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (100885)3/30/2000 2:41:00 AM
From: Petz  Read Replies (3) of 1572646
 
Athlon 500 beats Celeron 700 hands down. From Anand's
benchmarks, we can extrapolate the poor scalability of the
new "Cellarmine." Anand estimated the % decrease in
benchmark scores for the new core (Coppermine 128K with 66
MHz FSB) as compared to a full 256K Coppermine with 100 MHz
FSB.) The speed disadvantage of the new core is as follows:

Content Creation Winstone 2000: -15%
Bapco Sysmark 2000: -19%
Quake III Arena: -30%
Unreal Tournament: -25%
Expendable Timedemo: -25%
If anything, the speed disadvantage will be larger at 700
MHz than it is at 600 MHz, since the major bottleneck of the
66 MHz FSB becomes even more significant as speed increases.

Now, using these "handicaps" we estimate the performance of
the 700 MHz CellarMine using Anand's prior benchmarks on
the 700 MHz CuMine and compare it to the measured 500 MHz
Athlon results:
Benchmark: CC2000 BAPCO QuakeIII Unreal Xpendable
600 MHz CeleronII 23.2 108 72 26.3 53.9
700 MHz (est.) 24.6 120 78 28.1 58.1
500 MHz Athlon 24.5 113 85 30.5 70.5
600 MHz Athlon 27.0 127 98 33.7 76.5

In nearly every case, a lowly Athlon 500 beats the
not-yet-available 700 MHz Cellarmine. If we assume that
Cellarmine scales half as well as CopperMine (more reasonable)
then 500 MHz Athlon will beat CellarMine 700 hands down.

Petz
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