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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: StockMan who wrote (26353)12/2/1997 4:03:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (2) of 1572938
 
You wrote: "If you extended your reasoning, the K5 and cyrix chips with their PR rating worked harder than the K6, Wonder why AMD decided to go for the higher clock speed tradeoff."

I pointed out that your conclusion wouldn't *necessarily* follow.

But it wouldn't surprise me if, were you able to overclock a K5 to 233 mhz, it would perform similarly to a K6 233. Both chips outperform a Pentium at a given clock speed.

The reason there's no K5 anymore?

1) Much larger die size.
2) No MMX.
3) Higher power consumption.
4) AMD had difficulty trying to get it running at higher clock speeds.

So the higher clock speed tradeoff made sense for AMD, given its options. Cyrix took the other tack and still uses a PRII rating.

Kevin
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