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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (60976)	6/8/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573341

<Show me the 40% improvement.> I don't know if you want to take the following without an economy-sized grain of salt, but if you look at Tom's results with the MultimediaMark99 benchmark: www4.tomshardware.com Pentium II 450 MHz: 1109 Pentium III 450 MHz: 1428 you'll see a 28.8% improvement thanks to SSE. Let the conspiracy theories fly ... Tenchusatsu

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (60976)	6/8/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573341

Kevin - Re: "Marketing hype, Paul. Show me the 40% improvement. Show me some benchmarks of PII + TNT2 vs. PIII + TNT2 + SSE." For the TNT, how's 96% improvement ? anandtech.com "Here you can begin to see the potential SSE has for the Pentium III. Just as 3DNow! did for the K6-2, SSE brings the Pentium III to new levels of performance. Rage's Dispatch demo, a 3965 frame fly through demo of actual gameplay of the upcoming game, Dispatch, truly taxed even AnandTech's fastest Pentium II systems. The Pentium III 560 only scored just under 26 fps, however after turning on the SSE support that was built in to the game, the performance of the Pentium III almost doubled offering a 96% performance improvement. Although the performance improvement experienced in Dispatch can be considered the ideal case, you can expect performance improvements to hover around the 20 - 40% range just by enabling SSE in future games. The potential is there, the weight is placed on the shoulders of game developers and video card manufacturers to take advantage of Intel's new born baby" . I see you are still shaking, Kevin - another day closer to the Killer 7 launch and AMD's stock is sinking instead of soaring ! Paul