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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (50750)2/23/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1572145
 
<Anand's review showed the K6-3-450 beating the Pentium III-500 by 4% in Windows NT and running 3% slower in Windows 98. (Business Winstone 99). So, I don't know where you get your idea that thats "not so hot." Furthermore, Anand ran his benchmarks with 64M of RAM, which is a joke. Its obvious that the presence of L3 cache will be more significant on a system with more memory.>

Yeah, Business Winstone 99 is the only benchmark that the K6-3 450 (which doesn't exist yet) does well on. What about Highend Winstone 99? What about 3D games? How about some of those "gee-whiz" programs that the massive Pentium III marketing campaign is so intent on pushing?

I already admitted that the K6-3 will be AMD's first serious contender in the business market segment. It provides a real alternative to the Pentium II, while the Pentium II still lives, of course. But people who are considering buying a Pentium III aren't interested in mundane things like watching Microsoft Word zoom. And gamers aren't going to be impressed with the less-than-stellar gaming performance of the K6-3, unless of course, their only game is Quake 2 and their only 3D card is a Voodoo2.

The K6-3 has its place, but it's not a Pentium III killer by a longshot.

Tenchusatsu
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