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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RDM who wrote (49254)	2/11/1999 1:58:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572529

<I thought the dual floating point execution was for specifically improving the bottleneckt requirements of simultaneously doing 3D simulation with 3D display. I do not know much about this, but wouldn't that include games?> No, I don't think the dual execution units are for specifically improving 3-D calculations and games. You would think, however, that AMD did their homework and made sure that the K7 FPU can speed up critical code sections from popular 3-D programs from AutoCAD to Quake II. I still think that the dual FPU execution units are there mainly to brute-force their way into better floating-point performance. They're just correcting a mistake they made back then when floating-point wasn't as important as it is now. Tenchusatsu