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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (42218)11/25/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) of 1572234
 
Re: "I agree with Ten. The onboard cache on K6-3 systems will produce a smaller percentage performance gain vs. K6-2, than the onboard cache on CeleronA systems did vs. Celeron."

I think this probably makes sense as well. However, we may be pleasantly surprised because it's easy to forget:

1) K6-3 will add 256k on chip as opposed to Celeron A's 128k; and
2) A K6-3 based computer will still be able to draw on up to 2 megabytes of L2 on the motherboard (more typically 1 mb).

We probably won't see the kind of performance gain achieved from the (brain dead) Celeron to the (respectable) Celeron A, but the performance increase will nevertheless be pretty significant. I'd guess that all other things being equal, a K6-3 400 will perform on par with a PII 450.

Kevin
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