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To: Elmer who wrote (46275)	1/15/1999 11:21:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571281

K6-3 should be faster than PIII, at least in Business Winstone 99. There is a PIII review on the net - firingsquad.com This isn't exactly a perfect comparison, but bear with me because this the closest I can get to a real comparison. According to the PIII review, here are PIII and PII Winstone 99 scores: PIII 500 - 23.3 PII 500 - 22.3 This shows the PIII is 4.5% faster than the PII at 500MHz in Winstone 99. According to Anand's test, (We can't directly compare the two website's numbers because the PIII review contained 128 MB RAM and Anand's test contained 64 MB.) we get these Winstone 99 scores: K6-3 450 - 22.5 PII 450 - 20.6 This shows the K6-3 is 9.2% faster than the PII at 450MHz in Winstone 99. If the performance of the chips scale well, then the K6-3 will be faster than the PIII at the same clock speed in Business Winstone 99. However, the K6-3 500 may be a greater percentage faster because its L2 cache is boosted a greater MHz. Gaming performance can't be compared because Anand didn't tell what resolutions he ran most of his tests on. Again, this isn't the best comparison, but it is as good as we can get.