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To: Elmer who wrote (80342)	11/17/1999 10:35:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1572273

Elmer, that was a good post: <I guess it's becoming obvious that it's essentially impossible to come up with a set of PC benchmarks that can be used to conclusively compare Intel and AMD processors.> I agree <Clearly both processors can be shown to be the fastest depending on who is doing the benchmarks and under what conditions using which drivers, chipsets, compilers etc> At the current time they are pretty close -- Athlon is generally better at games, 3D rendering and engineering applications, CuMine has the edge in server applications (mostly integer). For general business apps, it doesn't matter. I'm not sure which is better for SW development, probably CuMine right now. <I expect AMD to regain the apparent lead sometime in the next quarter, only to be bested again by Intel a short time later and so on and so on. Neither demonstrating a dominating lead. What we need to see is how Athlon does with the advantage of new compiler technology followed by how the CuMine does with huge on-die L2, 512k, 1Meg & 2Meg+ as well as possible boosts to the L1 size.> The general trend will be Athlon improving more than CuMine except for servers, which are the only applications for which huge cache really matter. If Intel doubles its sales of server chips, it can easily afford to lose 1/3 of the high end market. Intel should catch up to and possibly exceed AMD when the Willamette comes out. <Intel will regain MHz crown> Disagree until Willamette As for extending x86 to 64 bits, I don't think Intel will do it, because it would probably outperform the Itanium. And I think an AMD x86-64 bit CPU can coexist happily with Itanium.