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To: Scumbria who wrote (129622)	3/8/2001 11:05:22 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Before Coppermine, PIII did not have an L2 cache and Athlon blew it away across the "bored". Correct about the L2, but that's not what you said. You said "cacheless". All Intel processors since the 486 have had L1 cache. Furthermore, Athlon did not blow it away, across the board or anywhere else. Intel is lucky they have SPEC and SandrasSISoftWhatever, to keep P4 from the same fate Intel does not "have" SPEC. SPEC is an independent organization, completely unrelated to Intel. SPEC is the only benchmark suite recognized by the industry because of it's impartiality. All major manufacturers publish SPEC benchmarks, including AMD. Athlon has very mediocre INT scores while Intel's P4 has the highest scores ever measured on the industry standard Integer benchmarks. Athlon's Floating Scores are the worst scores of any CPU manufacturer while P4's FP scores are a close second to the 64 bit Alpha. No system manufacturer publishes the lame "PC industry benchmarks" you claim. EP