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To: kapkan4u who wrote (85264)	7/11/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Let me elaborate for your benefit For the same MHZ and with optimal conditions the K-7 should slightly outperform Pentium II on integer benchmarks, and outperform the the Pentium II by 40%. However the Pentium SSE instructions can prefetch data, allowing the Pentium III to outperform the K-7 on code compiled for Pentium III. It a similar fashion on floating point benchmarks the Pentium III can execute four floating instructions at the same time. You are going to assert that 3D Now can do likewise. But 3d Now requires assembly language coding, which most programmers are not willing to perform. The Intel compiler for Pentium III will allow execution of multiple floating point instructions, without the need for assembly language coding. Thus on benchmarks recompliled for SSE , the Pentium III will outperform the K-7 under most benchmarks. P.S. I apologize for the spelling error " flating point" where it should have been "floating point". Maybe that caused the confusion.