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To: Scot who wrote (41899)	11/19/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575608

<Officials here showed the K7 running several productivity applications, but the real horsepower of the processor was demonstrated while playing back a DVD movie. The system ran software decompression without any assistance from added hardware. Many systems today can run software-DVD while relying on the graphics card to handle some of the MPEG-2 decode process. AMD officials said the K7 won't need any hardware assist, even for such a CPU-intensive task.> Sounds just like one of the benefits of KNI to be featured on Intel's Katmai coming out in late February. Though from a marketing perspective, DVD is a nice buzzword, so demonstrating the K7 working on DVD carries a lot of weight. <Dana Krelle, vice president of marketing at AMD, said the K7's new floating-point design should out-produce the K6 family and other X86 designs by a factor of 2x when the product hits the market.> From AMD marketing, I still hear much more about the K7's floating-point performance than integer. Could it be that the integer performance isn't going to be that much better than P6 clock-for-clock? Usually a 25 to 30% integer performance increase from generation to generation is normal for Intel processors. I wonder what the percentage increase in performance is going to be from K6-2 to K7. (Or K6-3 to K7.) But of course, if K7 even beats P6 by 5% integer-wise, the "Intel-a-bees" are going to be hearing it for a year or so, at least until Willamette. Tenchusatsu