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To: Paul Engel who wrote (44043)	12/26/1998 4:15:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) of 1572596

Priest: <<Maxwell - Anand's Latest K6-3 Benchmarks attribute most of its gains from the 2 MegaByte L3 cache - apparently in a RINGER system provided by AMD. Anand seems bright enough to have recognized this "stacked deck" provided by AMD and he re-did his benchmarks with differing amounts of external L3 cache. With smaller L3 caches - or no cache at all - the K6-3 performance is severely degraded:>> There is little improvement going from L3=1M to 2M. Most MB comes with 512K or 1M L2 (which will become L3 in K6-3 systems). The strength of the K6-3 is in the integrated 256K L2. Winstone 98 K6-3-350 (512K L3)= 27.2 Pentium II 400 = 27.6 K6-3-350 (1M L3)= 28.0 K6-3-350 (2M L3)= 28.9 Pentium II 450 = 29.5 CeleronA 450= 29.5 K6-3-400 (1M L3/ 66MHz FSB) = 29.9 When AMD releases the K6-3 it will be the fastest period. It will also be cheaper than the PII. Look like Sharpteeth are out to bite PII. Maxwell

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