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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (48157)	2/2/1999 7:38:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571808

A little bit on the K7's FPU Got this from The Register, so take it with a grain of salt if you wish: "AMD will show its K7 at .25 microns and describes its out of order FPU, which it claims will execute FPU instructions at two FLOPS per cycle, 3DNow! SIMD instructions at four FLOPS per cycle peak rate and up to three MMX SIMD instructions per cycle." theregister.co.uk How many FLOPS per cycle can the K6-X and PII/III do at peak rate? I think the PII/III and K6-X can do two MMX instructions per cycle. If you don't believe The Register, this info will probably come out on Feb. 15 at the IEEE conference.

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (48157)	2/2/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1571808

A tad more on the K7's power Read this at www.amdzone.com. This is written by a programmer for Quake 3. "Your time is better served lobbying your video card driver manufacturers for 3DNow and KNI support. This will net, by far, the most gains in overall performance for the majority of users with PIII and K6 systems. K7 should run great out of the box, with or without 3DNow! support." finger.planetquake.com This obviously leads us to believe that the K7 (at least its FPU because this game is very FPU intensive) is going be more powerful than the PIII. Hopefully AMD will give out Spec numbers at that conference coming up.

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (48157)	2/2/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571808

TGPTNDR, Actually, Paul has been quite forthcoming about his AMD buys and sells. He has done very well with AMD, and I suspect he will do even better with all the new product offerings coming out of AMD. The lack of innovation at Intel should help his AMD investment out too. Scumbria