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To: Francis Chow who wrote (32309)	5/1/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: Adrian Wu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574216

Francis: The K6-2 has a K6 core, with 2 MMX units and the new AMD 3DNow instructions. (It was called the K6-3D by Jerry during the last Microprocessor Forum). The K6-2 will run on both 66MHz and 100MHz bus. In addition, AMD has a Direct3D HAL to maximize Direct 3D performance, and apparently, an OpenGL patch is in the works. John Carmack from id also confirmed a while back that id will be releasing a special version of the Quake engine (or a patch) that will be optimized for 3DNow. This will not be surprising, since AMD sponsors the PGL, which uses Quake in their contest. The K6-3D will be what was known as the K6-3D+. This chip will have the K6 core, a pipelined FPU, 2 MMX units, the 3DNow instructions and 256kB of on chip L2 cache. It runs on a 100MHz motherboard and requires a new chipset. There is an option for an L3 cache on motherboard (ala DEC Alpha). This chip will outperform the PII, and may even approach the performance of the Xeon. This will be released (hopefully) before the end of the year. I hope this helps. Adrian