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To: Scumbria who wrote (120363)	7/16/2000 3:30:25 PM
From: porn_start878	Respond to of 1571808

Edit : Sorry scumbria the message is for Elmer Wow you managed to contradict yourself in less than 200 words, that's hard : First you say what I consider to be 6th or 7th generation processors is unimportant And a few word after, we can read : Now we have a situation where AMD's 7th generation processor runs 7th generation code no faster than Intel's 6th generation processor runs 6th generation code. In which case I submit that there is no generation gap and claims of such are now exposed. I just wish Intel would offer a 512K L2 CuMine or a 64K L1 version because clearly the 6th generation would blow away the 7th. And what if Intel offered a 200MHz FSB? The coppermine is 8-9 months old remember that and has a state-of-the-art cache subsystem. The cache incorporation in the TBIRD is simply, by far, inferior, missing a wider datapath and a lower latency. With equivalent caches, then you can compare the cores. To compare the cores themselves, you must compare them with a similar L2 cache subsystem; or compare the Athlon Calssic with the Katmai. Then you can observe a 17 to 30 % lead for the new core designed with less than a tenth of the intel's budget. And also, the K7 core has a clear binsplit advantage given that the intel's .18 Mu process is known to be the best in town (again think to how many times intel's process budget exceeds AMD's). Max