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To: Tony Viola who wrote (87466)	8/31/1999 10:37:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Tony and thread, Article... Unfair Advantage? Athlon vs. Pentium III -- AMD Results Get Scrutinized August 31, 1999 COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS : Special from Electronic Buyers' News - A Canadian benchmarking operation claimed Advanced Micro Devices Inc. modified tests to give its Athlon microprocessor an unfair advantage over Intel Corp.'s Pentium III. FutureMark Software Corp. Ltd. said AMD is violating the trademark of the Toronto company's 3DMark 99 MAX test suite and terms of a related licensing agreement. The company said AMD's actions were "inappropriate." According to FutureMark, AMD modified the 3DMark 99 MAX test by optimizing the DLL test code for its recently released Athlon. AMD's own test results demonstrated that, in one of the two 3DMark tests, the 600MHz Athlon outperformed the 600MHz Pentium III by more than 30 percent. Of the 13 test results accompanying AMD's Athlon performance assertions, the 3DMark figures were among the highest in favor of the chip. AMD erred by comparing the optimized Athlon results to the generic test suite used with the Pentium III, said FutureMark. Mention of the customized 3DMark test suite was fully disclosed on page 39 of a 42-page software performance guide that accompanied the test results, an AMD spokesman said. "The reference should have been included in some other places," he said. "But in the excitement of the [Athlon] launch, that reference was overlooked." AMD and FutureMark were in talks to resolve the matter, the spokesman said.