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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (63713)	9/1/1998 4:30:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

McMannis - Re: "Something troubles me.." Let me guess - big losses in AMD, NSM/Cyrix and now Intel ! Paul

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (63713)	9/1/1998 4:34:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

McMannis - Re: "Hard for me to believe they will let AMD within a speed grade." Speed grade differences seem immaterial - AMD appears capable of losing money no matter what their highest speed grades are. But they keep you buying more AMD stock. That doesn't trouble me. Paul

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (63713)	9/1/1998 5:46:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Jim, In other words the Dixon will eat the Pentium IIs lunch at equal clock speeds? Will be interesting to compare the K6-3 and the Dixon seeing as they will both have 256k L2 cache running at clockspeed. Microprocessor Report gave a general rule of thumb that says if you double the size of your cache, your miss rate will go down by the square root of 2, all other things being equal. Also, you have to remember that the size of the cache is usually the limiting factor when it comes to the maximum frequency you can run your CPU. Sure, perhaps a 450 MHz Dixon is going to blow the pants off a 450 MHz Deschutes Pentium II, but can you actually run the Dixon at 450 MHz? (No, I don't believe an overclocked Mendocino is proof that you can.) On a related note, it will be real interesting to see how well AMD can produce the K6-3 with that 256K on-die L2 cache, considering that they have to produce these suckers at speeds equaling or exceeding that of the K6-2. Tenchusatsu