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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (73815)	10/4/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1572295

Jim, It seems, Athlon750 has gone through some core/layout/mask/process changes. Following are the power ratings taken from Athlon Data Sheet from the AMD site - 500MHZ 550MHz 600MHz 650MHz 700MHZ Max Thermal Power 42W 46W 50W 54W 50W Typ ,, ,, 38W 41W 45W 48W 45W Stop grant (Max) 3W 3W 3W 4W 3W Max and Typical power consumption for Athlon 700MHz are lower than the 650MHz one! There is about 15% reduction in the actual power requirements of Athlon700MHz from the extrapolated values using 650MHz Athlon. From the Anand's Athlon 700MHz review - 1* 2* 3* 4(Higest) 5 6* 7* 600MHz 28.1 267 64.5 114.8 59.6 28.4 288 650MHz 30 285 65.8 119.4 62.8 29.7 300 700MHz 31.3 297 69.5 133.2 65.1 32.1 318 1: Bus Appl Performance - Ziff Davis Winstone 98 2: Overall Sys Performance - Win98SE - BAPCo SYSMark 98 3: Quake 2 crusher.dm2 4: Quake3 DEMO1 5: Direct3d - Expendable TImedemo 6: ,, - Half Life Smokin' 7: Overall Sys perf - WINNT - BAPCO SYSMmark98 Athlon 700MHz showed more improvement in the 3D and Quake benchmark results from 650MHz Athlon, than the increment shown by 650MHz from 600MHz. Finally, I'd like to finish this post with the following comments copied from Anand's review of 700MHz Athlon - "The yields on the Athlon (the percentage of stable/marketable CPUs out of the number of CPUs produced) have been incredible. Since before the release of the K5, the Athlon is the highest yielding CPU AMD has produced for public release." Now my question is, how does he know about the yields on the Athlon? Goutama credit: JC's message board posters