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To: Paul Engel who wrote (43757)	12/21/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573198

Paul, But you know Intel isn't standing still The larger L1 cache on Katmai should improve Winstone scores, yet the early results reported indicate otherwise. Is there a problem with the Katmai cache? Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (43757)	12/21/1998 9:14:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573198

Paul - R: "The K6-3 Winstone benchmarks look good - very impressive. However, the Quake 2 benchmarks look as good - or only slightly better than - the Intel chips." Looking at the demo1.dm2 benchmark indicates that the Voodoo 2 card maxed out at around 60FPS. These numbers prove it (I think Kevin pointed this out earlier today): K6-3 450 - 61.7 K6-2 300 - 59.9 As far as crusher.dm2: K6-3 450 - 41.1 Cel 450A - 39.1 P-II 450 - 39.1 Cel 450 - 38.8 K6-3 400 - 38.4 P-II 400 - 38 K6-3 350 - 35.6 If you take out the highest and lowest scores, the same conclusion as above can be made, but that would be manipulating the data to fit what I want to think so the jury is still out on that one. If dual Voodoos had been used we would have been able to notice how much (if any) the K6-3 gains over its competitors in Quake 2. "Assuming Intel stood still, AMD would have a good competitive position. But you know Intel isn't standing still, don't you Cringe?" Yup, Intel is moving, but AMD is moving at an equal to (K6-2 vs. PII clock speed in Q1) or slightly faster rate (K6-2 vs. Celeron clock speed). When I think about it, it doesn't really matter to AMD or Intel which chip performs better (in the retail market) because every chip made is sold. But, I do like how one can start to brag, expecially after quite some time. ;)