Oops, I forgot to include that joke of a CPU, the stopgap P55C. So lets make the table:
1. Klamath 300, M2-200-K300+, M2-187.5-K300+, M2-166(2x83)-K300+
2. Klamath 266, M2-180-K266+
3. Klamath 233, K6-225-K225+, M2-150-K233+
4. K6-200-K200+
5. K6-180-K180+
6. P55C-200-K166+
7. P55C-166-K138+
Of course Intel will sell alot of these overpriced CPUs, and people who buy they will be pissed when they realize 2-4 months from now that they are WAY off the performance curve. My advice to people buying a CPU would be to put off the purchase until summer or to buy something cheap (i.e. 6x86-P166+ or K5-P133) now and then upgrade this summer to an M2 or K6, whichever is faster. Even with the upgrade they'll spend less than buying a P55C, and they'll get something substantially faster in the end. And since the 6x86-P166+ is about as fast as the P55C-200 anyway, except on MMX applications which don't really exist yet, they won't be giving up anything in the meantime.
I sure hope Cyrix gets this message out.
Carl |
