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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (55636)4/15/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (4) of 1575623
 
Tench,

Some cold water from Intel vs AMD K7:

The source is the infamous YUK register:

Posted 15/04/99 5:14pm by Peter Sherriff in Stockholm

Willamette "will outperform K7 by 2X"

Following hot on the heels of AMD's tragic Q1 results, Intel is twisting the knife by showing OEMs performance predictions stretching out until late 2000 featuring a Willamette IA32 processor rated at 1100MHz competing with an AMD K7 at a paltry 666MHz.

No specific figures are quoted, but graphs pitting the rival chips against each other show the Willamette 1110MHz scoring around the 50 mark in Winstone98 against the K7 666MHz at 35. On SpecInt95, Willamette reaches 43 against the AMD part's 20.

The same graph shows a 666MHz Coppermine appearing in late 1999, a clear 12 months before AMD is expected to reach the magical figure.

And perhaps more worryingly for AMD, a Coppermine-based Celeron appears in early 2000 (probably at 500MHz and 100MHz FSB with Streaming SIMD) which is predicted to perform almost on a par with the K7 666 reckoned to be due 6-9 months later.

Chipzilla is predicting that the K8 offers little in the way of compensation for AMD – both SpecInt95 and Winstone98 come out way below the monstrous 1100MHz Willamette. ®

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