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To: Elmer who wrote (6018)5/7/1998 2:03:00 AM
From: Ed Sammons  Read Replies (3) of 6843
 
re: <Brian ... You claimed a Celeron performed worse than a
200mhz Pentium.>
<You haven't been able to find 1 single benchmark backing up your claim,>

A quick search on Alta Vista of "celeron benchmark" returns on the first 3 pages:

Graph showing Celeron266 Win95 Bus. Winstone performance is 91% of PMMX233 (e.g. ~= PMMX200).
zdnet.de

"In fact, the Celeron could barely keep pace with PCs running on Intel's PMMX-200, which is used in systems that cost as little as $799."
pcworld.com

My comment:
The Celeron is a stopgap processor with anemic integer performance, good FPU performance compared to the K6. It is an attempt to slow market share loss until the follow-on CPU with L2 cache on chip. The market battle in Q4 '98 between the Celeron follow-on, PII, and the K6-3D+ will be interesting because all three will run w/ the L2 cache at processor speed and 100MB/sec main memory bus, negating the primary advantage of the PII.

If the Celeron and K6-3D+ will sell between $150-200 in volume, what will that do to Intel's margins when the PII offers no noticable speed benefit at the same megaherz. Will people buy the PII over a Celeron or K6-3D+? Will Intel be able to charge such a large premium for their top end cpus to make for the much lower margins of the Celeron. Will computer buyers pay a large premium for incremental performance gains?
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