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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (55003)4/9/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: RDM  Read Replies (1) of 1582756
 
We estimate that the K7 will be, on average, 40% faster than the PIII in 3D games.

The PIII needs 14 cycles for 14 multiplies and 12 cycles for 12 adds to calculate one vertex (one point), or 26 cycles.

The K7 needs 14 cycles for 14 multiplies, and while these 14 cycles are calculated, the 12 adds are also calculated.

For me and my uses, the best part was the possibility of 2X Pentium III (at same clock rate) for double precision:

This means that the K7 has 4 times the peak bandwidth of a PIII in double precision FP calculations! No wonder some rumors say that the high end Winstone '99 runs twice as fast on a K7-600 than on a PIII-500. Keep in mind, we are talking about rumors, but the K7 will kick some serious butt in the Intel workstation market.

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