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To: Elmer who wrote (61008)	6/8/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: fyo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

EP: Why do you see it as important for the Intel SSE to show 40% improvement over the PII on NVidia TNT benchmarks? You make a very good point here. The K6 core FPU performs significantly below the P6 core FPU. Thus one would expect that, given SSE and 3DNow! were equally good, the improvement in the Intel case would be significantly less. --fyodor

To: Elmer who wrote (61008)	6/8/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1573682

Re: "Is it your point that the SSE shows no improvement whatsoever, or that if it is less than 40% improvement on NVidia TNT benchmarks that will somehow make AMD's 3dnow superior? I am missing your point here." You originally posted that AMD is all "will be" promises. One of the promises you listed is that the new drivers "will be" better. exchange2000.com I simply pointed out that they were in fact already better--by 40% according to NVidia's press release. I also poised the question of when the SSE enhanced drivers showing 40% improvement would arrive. (In fact, I'm curious when drivers showing any MATERAL improvement will show up--the 40% is interesting because it gives you some basis for comparing 3DNow! vs. SSE, but it's not a critical issue.) exchange2000.com This got Paul all worked up and he claimed that the SSE enhanced NVidia drivers with 40% improvement ALREADY came out. exchange2000.com I asked Paul to show me the 40% improvement resulting from the quote-unquote "SSE Enhanced" NVidia DRIVERS that he claimed existed. exchange2000.com Thus far he remains unable to "show me the money." So, to answer your question, my "point" was a response to Paul's ERRONEOUS claims regarding the performance of the "SSE Enahnced" NVidia drivers. Kevin