Kevin and thread,
<I'm willing to bet the reason the quake scores don't show a larger discrepency is that Anand used only one Voodoo 2 card instead of two in SLI configuration.>
Sharky Extreme has performed some Quake II benchmarks on a system with 128 MB of SDRAM and a Quantum Voodoo2 SLI card (the equivalent of two Voodoo2 cards, I think, because of that SLI designator). In these tests, the K6-3 400 is pitted against the old Pentium II 400. Here are the results that appear on his graphs:
Benchmarks w/out 3D-Now support:
Half-Life: K6-3 25.4, P2 31.5
Incoming: K6-3 84.6, P2 97.3
Quake II Timedemo: K6-3 80.2, P2 90.1
Quake II Massive: K6-3 54.3, P2 64.7
Quake II Crusher: K6-3 35.5, P2 41.1
Benchmarks w/ 3D-Now support:
Quake II Timedemo: K6-3 93.3, P2 90.1
Quake II Massive: K6-3 66.4, P2 64.7
Quake II Crusher: K6-3 41.5, P2 41.1
Seems like the K6-3's advantage over the Pentium II in games is still razor-thin, even with 3D-Now and that monstrous Voodoo2 SLI card. (How come no one is using the Riva TNT for benchmarking?) Seems like Business Winstone is still the only area where the K6-3 will outshine the Pentium II and Katmai. Who knows what the heck Katmai will bring to the table for applications and games which support KNI?
(By the way, Sharky did use a more typical motherboard configuration with 1 MB of L3 SRAM cache. In comparison, Anand used 64 MB of SDRAM, a single Voodoo2 card, and 2 MB of L3 SRAM cache on the motherboard.)
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