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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (86183)	1/9/2000 9:26:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1571808

Tenchusatsu, <Wow, a 68% improvement from AMD's scores to Fujitsu's, most of which can probably be attributed to the compiler. (System config can be another factor, but even AMD's score is based on RDRAM, just like Fujitsu's. I wonder if Fujitsu is using the 820 or 840 chipset. AMD is using 820.) > It has been clear for a while that prefetch provides a massive benchmarking advantage. Also, Fujitsu system uses 256MB of RDRAM versus 128MB shown on AMD web page. I have not paid close attention to the details but I would suspect that there are other hardware elements that are superior in the Fujitsu system. <So assuming that Fujitsu's scores were based on unreleased compilers, I guess AMD marketing is obligated to update their own results once those compilers do become available to the public. And I heard Intel's latest compilers will be available early this year, if they haven't already been released.> AMD marketing is not obligated to do anything other than try to make things equivalent between the two systems BUT your call is Fair! Chuck