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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (8591)	9/14/2000 4:15:48 PM
From: bacchus_ii	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE: "I'm a little bit concerned about that leaked SpecFP2000 score at Ace's. If it's true I don't think AMD will beat that with 1.3 GHz Mustangs and DDR. High (legacy) FPU performance was AMDs biggest advantage so far..." Any double precision floating-point application is a danger for AMD because SSE2 handle double precision number. Auto-Cad is the most important one I think. If Mustang can do double precision we are safe here. Gottfried

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (8591)	9/14/2000 4:16:55 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 275872

Andreas - RE: "I'm a little bit concerned about that leaked SpecFPU score at Ace's. If it's true I don't think AMD will beat that with 1.3 GHz Mustangs and DDR. High (legacy) FPU performance was AMDs biggest advantage so far..." I'm not impressed with that number...it would have to be a LOT higher for me to be concerned, like the gap between Athlon and Katmai last year. I care more about what improvement Athlon w/266MHz bus and DDR do for performance. Anand's mentions that the 760 is really stable make me feel good about the Athlon moving forward. Now we see if AMD can get the 760 launch to be great...

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (8591)	9/14/2000 5:47:26 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<I'm a little bit concerned about that leaked SpecFP2000 score at Ace's. If it's true I don't think AMD will beat that with 1.3 GHz Mustangs and DDR. High (legacy) FPU performance was AMDs biggest advantage so far...> Don't you think there could be some pleasant surprises with the new core?