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To: Joseph S. Lione who wrote (69261)	8/19/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573307

Joe, <think it's not quite accurate to use that number to compare with another processor that was not optimized.> And I think you still miss the point. Read more carefully: "Futuremark Corporation Releases 3DMark? 99 MAX - The only benchmark that objectively measures both Intel Pentium III SIMD and AMD 3DNow! technology" ( futuremark.com ) The code was already full-blown optimized for Pentium-III SSE, don't you see?! Everybody knows how huge were Intel efforts to promote KNI-SSE, therefore you may consider that the 3DMark99-Max code was already tweaked by Intel. Apparently the FutureMark did very sloppy job optimizing for AMD 3DNow with Athlon extensions, or refused to incorporate them in a timely manner, so AMD had to step in and show the class. Are you having problem with that? Your score dismissed.