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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (57052)5/3/1999 12:58:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1573911
 
<Show me some Winstone 97 benchmarks.>

Ah, I see. So are you hoping that the K7 will be much faster than a Pentium III on Winstone 2000 than Winstone 99?

But, to be fair, the K7 isn't only supposed to increase the performance per MHz, despite the 9-issue execution unit, the 128K oversized L1 cache, the deeper buffers, the 200 MHz point-to-point bus, yada yada. As Scumbria correctly points out, the K7 is designed for higher frequencies than the K6 could ever achieve, just like the P6 core is designed for higher frequencies than the Pentium.

So will AMD be debuting the K7 at a clock speed faster than 500 MHz? Seems like they'd have to; otherwise, the K7 will be very underwhelming. That's why AMD hasn't even announced a starting clock speed yet; they're desperately trying to crank out enough parts which can exceed 500 MHz by the time June rolls around. And as Scumbria points out, June is only four weeks away.

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