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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (59761)5/27/1999 2:43:00 AM
From: RDM  Read Replies (1) of 1572689
 
<You can't capture the market on FPU alone>

You make very valid points Elmer. The general computer market history consider FPU performance only necessary for the geek minority, while real business users were the main market and they did not require any floating performance.

Integer performance is far the more important benchmark for mainstream desktop use that is the backbone of the PIII market. The PIII and Xeon are where the money is.

We will just have to wait. Personally, the fpu performance is more interesting to me because I use it sometimes for long runs and the K7 may turn out to be much better 40% faster than the PIII when compiled specifically for it. I don't think the major desktop market cares about this though. A 10% inprovement in integer performance over the best of Intel CPUs would be much more important commercially.
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