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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (54976)4/9/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) of 1582751
 
Re: "I personally predict that the K7 could initially achieve similar integer performance as a K6-III clock-for-clock, and perhaps a 20% increase in floating-point over a Pentium III. That's my WAG, but it seems like a reasonable hype-to-truth ratio. However, I don't believe the K7 will really debut above an initial clock speed of 550 MHz."

I think I agree! But the integer performance will be that of a K6-III with 2 MB L2 (i.e. rather faster than any PIII out there). I also think that the K7 architecture will scale MUCH better than the PIII architecture as memory technology improves between July 1999 and Q3-Q4 2000 (when we'll see Willamette). So, oveer time, we'll see an effect similar to what has happened with the K6 vs. the Pieceofsh*t-II/III given the K6's socket 7/100 MHz FSB limitations, but in the other direction (i.e. to AMD's advantage).

Kevin
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