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To: Dan3 who wrote (92773)	2/12/2000 3:20:00 PM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 1573852

Athlon 850 benchmarks (AMD) Posted By johan Friday, February 11, 2000 - 6:48:51 PM AMD surprised me with this early launch, this wasn't supposed to happen until the 14th. Luckily I ran a few benchmarks. I am working on this Linux box comparison (won't be here soon, Linux and I don't get along too well). To be more precise: I hope to give you a PIII-800 vs Athlon 800/850 vs Alpha DS 10 (21264-466 MHz) comparison. I thought it would be refreshing. Anyway here are the benchmarks. The benchmark system used the usual Western Digital 18 GB 7200 rpm ATA-66, 128 SDRAM PC 100 Cas2. The videocard was the Guillemot 3D Prophet SDR, The Athlon used a GIGAByte 7IX, de PIII-800 a SuperMicro i820. Benchmark Athlon 800 Athlon 850 PIII-800 FPU Mark 4270 4620 4250 CPU Mark 70.2 72.5 71.6 Winstone 29.9 30.8 31.5 Content Creation 31.5 30.8 29.6 Povray Skyvase 30s 28s 33s Dagoth More ZG 55.5 59.5 50.1 640x480x16 bit color Forget the synthetic benchmarks like CPU 3D Mark 2000 and Winbench 2000. It is a neck-and-neck race, but it clear that Athlon has a small advantage. The PIII-800 prevails only in Winstone. The Athlon 800 and 850 give the PIII-800 a firm beating in the polygon intensive Dagoth More Zoological Garden. That confirms our Athlon 800 review. I sincerely hope Intel shows us something good on the IDF. They need something better than the coppermine, because you can bet that the Thunderbird will kick ass! If you got a good question for me, that you want me to ask those capable intel engineers (no marketing crap for me ; ), post your question here. Heavy tech questions are welcome on the technical forum. aceshardware.com