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To: Yousef who wrote (60772)	6/7/1999 2:16:00 AM
From: Marco Polo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573430

Performance is questionable? Tried one out, have you? Why don't you lend me one of those Williamettes you have over there, so we can make a comparison of seventh generation processors.

To: Yousef who wrote (60772)	6/7/1999 5:05:00 PM
From: fyo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573430

Yousef:The K7 is "supposed" to be announced in June ... but ... Performance is questionable at this point. I'm bookmarking this one. It's the first time in recent history that you haven't appended a '<ggg>' to your post. I quite like the change, I must say. Anyway: I don't think that the CPU performance is questionable. Integer performance will be solid, but then that has almost always been the case with x86 CPUs. Floating point performance looks to be 15-20% stronger than a PIII (don't ask me for data to back that up - I can't divulge my source, but you are welcome to rag on me all you want if it turns out to be wrong :)). The CuMine, however, will narrow that gap some - the question is how much. What worries me is not the CPU. It isn't really AMD's production capabilities. What worries me is the motherboard/chipset situation. VIA and ALi have shown time and time again that they have problems getting to within 10% of Intel chipset performance. And I don't think AMD will be much help here. I assume the Irongate chipset is built largely on VIA technology and I find it hard to believe that performance wouldn't reflect this. And they really do need to improve the chipset performance. If we look at the Witney chipset as an indication of what we can expect in the Camino (less the integrated graphics, of course), then AMD/VIA/ALi/(SiS?) have to get their act together. And that's what worries me. --fyodor