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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (103161)	4/9/2000 12:42:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1576160

Joe - RE: "Now that's more reasonable. Do you have any idea how much tweeking of the core is going into TB/SF and Mustang? I wouldn't mind some performance increases / better MHz scalability / double precision 3DNow." Ace's Hardware has said the 1GHz Athlon out right now is based on a new revision of the core, code named Orion, with speed path optimizations. I assume Thunderbird will based on this revision if it is to be AMD's desktop processor the rest of the year. There haven't been other mentions of improvements to Thunderbird as far as I know. T-Bird's on-chip cache should put its performance comfortably ahead of Cumine. As far as enhanced 3DNow!, Rob from RB Computing rbcomputing.com put up info at his site from an AMD reseller conference and I think it had info about 3DNow! getting further additions in the form of double precision later this year, probably with Mustang. Unfortunately, AMD asked him to take down his info. AMD Zone reposted the same info but it isn't there anymore, nor the links from JC's or Ace's site... I guess AMD doesn't want that info freely distributed.