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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (42872)	12/6/1998 7:14:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572570

Kevin, <We already know the throughput, and it isn't significantly better than 3dNow.> Big deal, since AMD can't even reach the "full" theoretical throughput of 3D-Now. Remember how AMD was touting the 1.2 GFLOPs/sec number as four times that of a Pentium II when both are clocked at 300 MHz? Yet on Tom's Quake 2 tests, the AMD K6-2 300 achieves 54 FPS vs. 52 FPS for the Pentium II 300. That's an example of the difference between theoretical throughput and real-world performance. <In any case, Intel is at the mercy of Microsoft's DirectX7 release, and since MSFT and INTC aren't the best of friends right now, I wouldn't be surprised if there were some "accidental" delays on the Microsoft end.> Kevin, we've been through this many times before. DirectX 7.0 isn't critical to the release of Katmai. As with 3D-Now, native support in software is much more important than DirectX support. As for any "accidental" delays on Microsoft's end, that's cool. Intel could always withhold those valuable Merced specs from Microsoft and make sure that Microsoft is late to the IA-64 game. Tenchusatsu