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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Gary Ng who wrote (33004)5/28/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Maxwell  Read Replies (2) of 1570918
 
<<So what is the advantage of K6-2 here ?>>

If I ask you the same question, So what is the advantage of the EXPENSIVE PII-300 here?

The advantages of K6-2 over PII?

1) K6-2 can execute maximum 4 floating point per clock cycle compared to 1 clock for PII. K6-2-300 can do 1.3GFLOPs while PII-400 can do 400MFLOPs. It is up to the software programmers to harness the FULL POTENTIAL of the K6-2.

2) K6-2 IS CHEAPER! K6-2-300 OUTPERFORMS PII-300 by at least 10% on 3D Winstone. K6-2-300 is less than 1% slower than the PII-400.

3) People of socket 7 can upgrade Pentium to K6-2 without buying a MB.

4) MB of socket 7 is about $50-$70 cheaper than slot 1 MB.

Games such as QUAKE II that was benchmarked for the K6-2 is not completely optimize for the K6-2. Once fully optimize the K6-2 will run much faster than what posted. As you can see game such as Incoming is yet to 100% extract the power of the AMD 3D engine. The bottom line is that the performance improvement depends on how clever the programmers write the code. The 3DNOW! concept is clearly the next level in microprocessor which Intel is behind and yet to release.

The moral of this story is that there is NO NEED TO GO TO SLOT1. Intel is just making an excuse to rape the consumers and to lock competitors out. No wonder the DOJ is after Intel. Socket 7 is just AS GOOD AND EVEN BETTER. AMD has proven so.

Maxwell
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