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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: milo_morai who wrote (114179)6/4/2000 11:15:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (4) of 1575516
 
Anand's servers are crapped out, but what I have gotten so far is that Thunderbird is slightly faster than K75. As Kash said, the BIG thing about Thunderbird is the lower production cost and higher GHz for AMD. This is clearly very important. AMD needs to take advantage of its speed advantage over Intel, and hopefully this will get them into commercial PCs.

I am surprised the PIII is faster than AThlon is a couple of benchmarks. Looks like the PIII L2 cache is better than the AThlon's. PIII's L2 cache has something like a 7 cycle latency vs. Thunderbird's 11 cycles (according to Anand), and PIII's cache is 256 bit wide vs. Thunderbird's 64 bit. 1995 core keeps up with 1999 core. Amazing, huh?

DDR and 266MHz fsb will help.

Athlon is STILL the price/performance leader.
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