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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: StockMan who wrote (25547)	11/6/1997 1:02:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578701

Stockman, The MediaGX uses an old 586 core. (Thats from the 486 days). We went over it here a while ago. The differences between 386, 486, 586, Pentium, K5, M1, M2, K6, P-II cores are not that great. Most performance gains are achieved from higher clock speed, L1 cache and increased data bus width, increased data bus speed and L2 cache. Heck there are benchmarks that show the 486/120 performing the equivalent of a P60, that does not make it a pentium does it. 486/120 probably vastly outperforms P60. It doesn't make it a Pentium, butit makes it a better performing chip. Now Duping the unsuspecting customer with the clock speed (if you see the ads you'll see what I mean -- the 180 Mhz boldly displayed) and looks. But it runs at 180 MHz (actually 200 MHz now). Does Intel warn their customers that their 233 MHz Pentium chip performs worse a 188 MHz Cyrix M2 chip? Joe