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To: kash johal who wrote (70945)	9/3/1999 6:45:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1575867

<Hell NO. Just look at the launch of Katmai. they had folks here at the SJ Mcenery convention center showing off SSE weeks before PIII launch.> Kash, I don't remember any official benchmark scores being published by Intel until the release of the Pentium III. Sure, Katmai was being demoed before the eyes of the public weeks before its launch, and gigaflop numbers were being hinted at, but nothing close to official benchmark stuff like Spec or Winstone until the release. At least that's how I remember it, although my memory isn't the most reliable thing in the world. <And the limited info from IDF has dell showing only word running faster with camino/rdram and other windows apps running slower vs PC100 SDRAM.> Official benchmark scores, Kash, not limited info. It would be nice to see what those systems were running, what the peripherals were, how fast the processor was, how fast the DRDRAM was, etc. By the way, Dell thinks that half their systems will be sold with DRDRAM by the end (or middle?) of 2000. You'd think they'd say that if the only thing that DRDRAM improves is MS Word performance? (Whoop-dee-do, the annoying paper clip pops up more quickly than before.) <So tench for the record is Coppermine with 256K cache going to be much higher performance than a Xeon with 512K full speed cache.> I don't know. It's hard to guess what the difference is between Coppermine and the Dixon shrink besides SSE. There may be other "architectural improvements" that help per-clock performance, but if there are, I sure haven't heard about any. One thing is for sure: Coppermine looks to be very scalable in frequency, despite the so-called limitations of a sixth-generation core. <FYI AThlon BLOWS AWAY the Xeons. So how about some put up or shut up.> Gee, you're pretty touchy today. There's no doubt in my mind that Athlon looks very strong, even compared to Xeon. But performance is only one of many factors, and as long as Intel keeps close, they can reduce the advantage that Athlon has to the point where the difference is negligible except for some applications. Then Intel can press their other advantages to ensure that Pentium IIIs can continue to be sold in very high volumes. But like I said before, Intel hasn't released any official benchmark scores for Coppermine. All we know is that Coppermine is most definitely going to be faster clock-for-clock than Katmai. Tenchusatsu