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To: Elmer who wrote (76684)	10/24/1999 6:21:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572704

Elmer, Athlon TOTALLY DESTROYS Coppermine and Carmel... You posted some SPEC scores where some compiler tweaks were used for Coppermine that weren't used for Athlon. Now take a look at what happens when they run the same code: Bapco SYSmark for NT: AMD 650 - 584 AMD 700 - 607 INTC 667 - 310 INTC 733 - 330 intc scores from www.intel.com amd scores from www.amd.com Bapco is real world applications benchmark - it actually runs a mixture of Microsoft Office apps, Corel, and a few others. This is how the processors perform on real applications instead of arbitrary benchmarks with one CPU using compiler tweaks and the other not using compiler tweaks. This is what happens when both run the same code. To tell you the truth, I'm a little surprised by this huge difference, but it's hard to argue with the two manufacturer sites. Maybe you can check them out and identify some configuration differences - I didn't see any significant ones, other than Intel was using a workstation class motherboard with two rambus channels while AMD was using plain old PC100. Dan

To: Elmer who wrote (76684)	10/24/1999 6:57:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572704

RE:"Coppermine and Carmel TOTALLY DESTROYS Athlon"... Por Athlon, totally destroyed by Intels "benchmarks". <G>

To: Elmer who wrote (76684)	10/24/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1572704

Elmer, re:"Coppermine and Carmel TOTALLY DESTROYS Athlon" you mean the MIAalumnimine and Caramel? ROTFLMAO *AMD Athlon, still* THE FASTEST PC PROCESSOR IN THE WORLD!** amd.com The last time I looked, iNTEL couldn't get a chipset out the door! sTAY tOOOned! Mysef