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To: Paul Engel who wrote (86865)	8/13/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul - more good news on the performance front: jc-news.com JC has posted some estimates of Coppermine performance based upon recent tests. Looks like a coppermine 700 will be almost as fast as an Athlon 600 - so the coppermine 667 should be an appropriate competitor to the Athlon 550 (If AMD can still be bothered to make chips that slow by the time coppermine is ready) ================================================= Just wanted to throw my own curve into that. I just took a look at his scores and tried to extrapolate around what clock rate the PIII would have to be to beat a 600MHz Athlon, by taking the delta performance between PIII-550 and PIII-600 and incrementing by that much for each 50MHz jump. Mind you, because successive raises in clock rate do not increase the speed of all components in the system, the clock rates I'm extrapolating here would probably represent the less than what the the PIII would have to be to match. Also, remember that the improved caching structure of the Coppermine will mitigate some of the gap in many circumstances: benchmark K7-600 PIII-550 PIII-600 '600'-'550' Closest PIII to K7-600 Win98 SysMark98 265 222 238 16 650MHz (254), 700MHz (270) WinNT SysMark98 292 247 264 17 650MHz (281), 700MHz (298) 3D Studio Max 82 51 56 5 850MHz (81) Q3 Arena 1.08 110 87 95 8 700MHz (111) Q2 Crusher 75 61 65 4 700MHz (73), 750MHz (77) Half-Life SMOKIN 29 20 21 1 1000MHz (29) ===================================================== But intel's run up in the market today made perfect sense and is sure to continue, right? By the way, did you happen to get a chance to look at the pictures of Athlon chips and motherboards for sale in Japan at: watch.impress.co.jp Some people just refuse to wait to start selling things until the official release date, darn them anyways. Your buddy from the AMD thread, Dan