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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jack L. Dlugach who wrote (439)6/21/1996 2:40:00 PM
From: Paul Engel   of 1587055
 
Jack -

I don't want to belabor the point, but 100 = 200/2. A 100 MHz K5 runs at half the speed of a 200 MHz Pentium.

As for overall SYSTEM speed, your observations are correct. Bus speed, memory access times, cache sizes, wait states etc, all influence the speed of a full system.

These are basic realities. Processor speed (FROM INTEL) has long ago outstripped the capability of support chips/memory to keep up with the CPU. Hence, we all witness diminished returns with increasing clock speeds of CPUs from Intel.

As time goes on, some of these bottlenecks get pushed back, Synchronous DRAM, faster bus speed (CYRIX has done this - 75 MHz on their 6x86 boards), AGP ports and the like are coming into vogue.

However, that is not a good excuse to manufacture low-tech devices such as the K5-100, even if they are low cost.

Remember the Yugo? It was slow but pretty cheap. Seen any on the road lately?

Paul
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