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To: Epinephrine who wrote (94584)2/22/2000 12:24:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1571802
 
RE:"- Athlon is theoretically 42% faster than Willamette at unoptimized X87 floating point calculations.
- Willamette is only 15% faster at floating point calculations when code is optimized for ISSE and 3DNow.
- These calculations are based on a 1.4GHz Willamette and a 1.2GHz Athlon

What do you think?"...

1. Mhz will still sell
2. Intel will support new benchmarks to enhance performance.
3. We have a little idea what Mhz Willy will be introed at but Athlon better be close...




To: Epinephrine who wrote (94584)2/22/2000 1:23:00 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571802
 
What do you think?

Epinephrine, I am not the one to respond....maybe Scumbria or Kash or Kap.

ted



To: Epinephrine who wrote (94584)2/22/2000 1:43:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571802
 
Epinephrine,

I don't anticipate that Willy will be a huge amount faster than Athlon. The MHz advantage will scale for integer performance.

It sounds like the existing software base for floating point applications may well run faster on Athlon. That would be a feather in the cap for AMD.

Scumbria


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