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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Marco Polo who wrote (60153)6/1/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1570844
 
<Read any preview ever of the K7, you'll hear about the amazing 3 FPU pipelines that easily eclipse Intel's 2.>

That's incorrect. If I remember correctly, Intel has only one fully pipelined FPU. It beats the K6-x FPU because the K6-x's FPU wasn't pipelined, I think.

K7 will have two fully pipelined FPU's. The third execution unit in the floating-point cluster isn't an actual FPU, but just a unit that performs "miscellaneous" operations on the floating-point registers.

So in theory, the K7 should have twice the floating-point throughput as an equivalently-clocked P6 processor. In practice ... (to be continued)

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