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To: Petz who wrote (43948)	12/23/1998 6:37:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572942

<Ten, Quake2 timedemo is about the worst program to demonstrate superiority of the K6-3. It is very insensitive to L2 cache speed.> Yeah, but anyone can just pick and choose their benchmarks to show the superiority of one CPU over another. It just goes to show you that the performance game has become much more complex these days. Before, if you wanted everything to run faster and more smoothly, you just bought yourself a faster processor, and nearly everything that was installed on your system would be speeded up. Now, newer processors only speed up certain types of programs. That new L2 cache on the K6-3 speeds up office applications much more than games, while Katmai will speed up games and 3-D graphics much more than office applications. I guess AMD has worked very hard to even get to this point in the first place. Before, Intel processors were just plain faster than AMD's in every application. Now, we see so many proliferations on both sides, where processors are judged on not only performance, but also cost and the context in which these processors will be used. One of my managers described all this as signs of a "maturing market." Tenchusatsu