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To: David S. who wrote (50890)	3/20/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Fred Fahmy	Respond to of 186894

David, Re: Non-Intel Chips Yeah, this was mentioned recently over on the CREAF thread (I have a CREAF position so I keep up with it). "Additionally, many Intel-compatible processors have floating-point processing performance that's inferior to that of Intel processors." Ah yes....the one benchmark the Intel "competitors" always conveniently downplay as only being important in niche applications<GG>. Good luck, FF

To: David S. who wrote (50890)	3/20/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

David - Re: "I guess all the graphics/gaming devotees better avoid AMD or Cyrix CPUs!!!!!!!!!" I think the "gaming community" is pretty well plugged in to the superiority of Intel's processors as regards speed and especially FPU speed. AMD & Cyrix are, as usual, "wiping up the rear" in the performance race. I believe AMD is trying mightily to make up the performance gap with their K6-3D - with a better FPU and floating point MMX instructions. However, I believe their first version wasn't quite up to snuff and is being re-designed. They demo'ed the K6-3D in November and last month announced another delay in shipping - due to "software availability". I think they meant that there was no currently available software that could run faster on the existing K6-3D than on standard Intel products! Paul