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To: Elmer who wrote (88860)	1/22/2000 10:28:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571802

Re: Most of those benchmarks clearly show Athlon ... It's really hard to say. Intel's benchmarks are only given for Intel processors - the code that they have run for SPEC is using optimizations that result in a different benchmark. AMD is running the same code, with the same optimizations, on both processors. I'm sure that this particular result is more flattering to the Athlon than some other benchmarks might be, but at least they aren't running unavailable code (no unreleased compiler used). I continue the think that Athlon integer performance, with off chip cache, is roughly equivalent to a Coppermine with on chip cache - but must admit that the whole issue has been fuzzied up from both sides to where it's kind of hard to tell. In floating point, Athlon seems to have a clear, though not overwhelming, advantage. Dan