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To: Paul Engel who wrote (49935)	2/17/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) of 1570352

Re: "I doubt that - since Intel is buying these by the TENS of MILLIONS !" Great logic, Paul. I guess you must believe computers are cheaper than slide rules because more of them are sold. Re: "And if it were true, it would still be a factor of 2X in Intel's favor since Pentium II/III uses only 512K of L2 cache but the Sharpy Eye chip requires 2 Meg L3 cache (= 4 x 512K) to be competitive." Wrong again, Paul. Here's the benchmark to prove it: K6-3 400 on a 66 MHz bus (!) with 1 meg L2 beats a PII-450 (450, Paul!) on Winstone 98. The K6-3 350 MHz with 512 MB of SLOW, CHEAP L3 is darn near as fast ad a 400 MHz PII with 512 MB of FAST, EXPENSIVE L2 (27.2 vs. 27.6 Winstones). Winstone 99 numbers are slightly less favorable, but it seems pretty clear that even with 512 MB L3, the Sharpy will still outperform a PII clock for clock. Don't you feel silly for posting such an erroneous statement when you could have so easily verified it? anandtech.com Kevin

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