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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: EricRR who wrote (16700)	10/30/2000 11:41:54 AM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 275872

The combination of PC2100 DDR SDRAM and the 266MHz EV6 bus is killer for AMD, it often times puts the i840 to shame. For the high-end workstation, the i840 is no longer the best solution as the AMD 760 chipset can easily outperform it in many situations, not to mention that it is much cheaper. There was only one situation in which the Athlon/AMD 760 setup came out as the slowest among the four, that being the Mesa test, however with proper optimizations you will notice that the performance of that same platform comes within 1 point of the Pentium III/i840 test bed... anandtech.com