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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (46799)	1/21/1999 2:40:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1572712

<Did the K6 look great on paper compared to Intel's PPro and PMMX?> Yes. The K6 on paper had a stronger integer execution engine than the P6 core, double the L1 cache, and a very hefty branch prediction engine. It's FPU wasn't expected to be strong, but at the time, people didn't think a powerful FPU was necessary. Even Tom Uberclockermeister predicted that the K6 will be faster than the Pentium II at the same clock speed. (See tomshardware.com However, this was due in part to Tom's rather negative review of a pre-production Pentium II at the time. I don't know what Microprocessor Report said about the K6, though. Tenchusatsu

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