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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (98293)	3/13/2000 3:29:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1580691

Daniel, A very good find on your part. Explains how the Floppermine manages to keep up with the Athlon while the raw processing power of the Athlon is far superior to the Flopper. It's all in the bottlenecks and Game benchmarks? "Final Analysis" This effort has produced fairly clear results in most cases. When it comes to end-to-end bandwidth between processor and memory, Virtual Channel SDRAM wins among memory types and Athlon wins among processor types. When it comes to high-end geometry limited workstation performance, Athlon also proves superior. In the chip set category, VIA must be congratulated for bringing two excellent chip sets to market at the right time, and for delivering winning performance in the process. Finally, there appears to be no winner when it comes to popular game performance, particularly when these platforms and game titles are evaluated as they are used today and as they will be used in the future. There may not be a shortage of processing power even for the value PC to match the performance of the fastest PCs on earth (as long as that value PC has the right accelerator)."