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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (35218)	7/29/1998 6:49:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573042

Performance Gained on 3DNow! cyberway.com.sg 3D Game Engine (1st layer)..up to 100%....Game developers use 3DNow! ..........................................directly in their game ..........................................geometry engine. Obviously ..........................................the best option. API Support (2nd layer).....28 to 40%.....DirectX/OpenGL ..........................................Proprietary layer such as ..........................................MiniGL. A classic example ..........................................being Quake 2. 3D Card Driver (Final layer)...10 to 15%..3D chip/card driver that is ..........................................optimized DirectX 6.0 released date? microsoft.com K6-2 users will get SIGNIFICANT PERFORMANCE BOOST when this driver is released. Katmai KNI 3DLater! instruction will be supported by Microsoft DirectX 7.0 to BE RELEASED Q2 1999. infoworld.com AMD will almost have 9-12 months ahead of Intel. I heard from the "pool" that AMD has shipped OVER 2M K6-2 already and they still have 8 months to go. At this rate AMD will have over 15M 3DNow! CPU installed by the time Katmai hits the street. I can't wait for those $700+ Katmai-500MHz CPU without the driver. BTW IBM is selling a K6-2-266 at Best Buy. Go AMD. Maxwell