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To: RDM who wrote (49287)	2/11/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572600

<Isn't this a hedge and a little misleading. It is true that the K7 dual floating point execution units are not specifically for games, but will it make AMD more competitive in the games market.> I guess you misunderstood me. The dual floating point execution of the K7 isn't as specific as, say, 3DNow or Pentium III's new instructions. Rather, they're just taking the general all-purpose floating-point instructions and executing more at a time. Even though they aren't specifically for games, they will surely help gaming performance considerably. But they will also help every single other application which uses the general floating point instructions, from CAD tools to scientific simulations. Tenchusatsu

To: RDM who wrote (49287)	2/11/1999 6:44:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572600

Misunderstanding re:dual floating point execution units in K7. These ARE double precision, not single precision. It is possible that one of these units does double floating point add and the other does double floating point multiply, but since multiplies are often paired with add's, it should make both the gaming crown and the workstation crowd extremely happy. Its not clear yet whether there are two 3DNow! execution units or just one, but even the K6-2's single 3DNow! unit is capable of occasional peaks of 2 3DNow! ops (4 floating point ops) per clock cycle. PS, bought some more AMD today. Petz