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To: Process Boy who wrote (86143)	1/9/2000 1:59:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571785

<<PB, it has come to my attention that Fujitsu has just released SPECFP95 scores for a 733MHz CuMine that are pretty amazing. Over 30!> Wow. That's slightly askew form this result: amd.com > Note the compilers and configurations and adjust for availability and cost.

To: Process Boy who wrote (86143)	1/9/2000 4:20:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1571785

PBoy, <Wow. That's slightly askew form this result> Yes, the published "30" is a big askew from the realm of "18". The "SPECfp95=18" is actually what are you paying for in terms of real-world performance. I guess the premium goes for the "potential" to make it "30". However, there are several big IFs in achieving the "30"-level of practical performance. If you are an owner of a network of CAD developer workstations, there is very remote chance that your high-cost development package will be recompiled with the SPEC-special Intel compiler any time soon. For variety of software reasons. But if you are switching to Athlon-based workstations, you will have an INSTANT GAIN - to "25"-level of general performance, or 38% instant gain to your productivity, today, and not that elusive potential of "30" that is promised by Floppermine. Don't also forget that Athlons have presumably the same or better potential when similar prefetch mechanisms will be incorporated into mainstream compilers. So I guess you need to continue to hold your breath... Sorry for the inconvenience:)