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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (25628)	1/18/2001 3:11:31 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

I think 20% power savings for the Palomino core is about right. Since TBird is (apparently) power limited at 1.33 GHz, 20% would get us out to 1.6 GHz, and with a little luck (maybe bulk Silicon), to 1.7 GHz. With PowerNow, I'd expect at least an additional 40% savings, for a total of for more like 50% with only a slight effect on performance in typical benchmark applications. I remember AMD said that the Sony VAIO notebook could do DVD playback in the PowerNow mode and nearly double battery life.. I think the reason Pally won't be much better than TBird clock-for-clock is that the CPU is rarely the bootleneck anyway. It may be 10% faster on CPUMark, but only 3% faster in Quake and 2% faster in Winbench. Well, if they do SSE, it might be 10% better in Quake! Petz