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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (34260)	7/13/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) of 1571832

Pravin, >>>"The Xeon is only 5-10% faster than the PII. I'm sure the K7 will be much faster." Xeon was not designed to benchmark or compete with the PII. Rather, it's the Pentium Pro replacement, and early tests with heavy duty benchmarks like Oracle database programs, Internet web servers and OLTP (on-line transaction processing) programs have Xeon based servers at around 2X the performance of Pentium Pro based ones...at similar prices. Early indications are that they are also kicking Alpha ass re performance, and stomping all over Alpha in terms of price/performance. I expected the latter. The former is major gravy for Intel. Check out (admittedly, Intel data): intel.cz Re Xeon being only 5 - 10% faster than PII, it depends on the benchmark. There are benchmarks on which a Pentium (or a K6) is as fast as a mainframe. However, it's apples and oranges. Re K7 ever competing with Xeon, AMD has a long row to hoe, starting with yields and reliability. These were pretty sorry for the first year + on K6. The heavy duty (better known as mission critical) applications, will only be trusted to the company whose CPU chips have a known history of top yields and reliability (AKA Intel). Tony

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