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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (56364)4/26/1999 8:46:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (3) of 1571531
 
Re: "None of the systems tested against AMD's loaded Kmart 63 box had an L3 cache of 2 MegaBytes - or 1 MegaByte - or even 1 Byte."

I guess that should a considered a design flaw in those systems, since you can't go buy one with L3.

This stupid argument is pretty much the same as saying that a PII-300 should be considered "loaded and stacked" when compared to a K6-300 in an otherwise identical comparable system because the PII has 1/2 speed L2.

Personally, I suggest you stop whining about the whole thing and move on with your life. Spend some time thinking about creative ways to explain away the K7 benchmarks you'll see shortly--you know, the ones where not only the integer but also the FPU performance crushes that of any Intel core.

Kevin
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