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To: Paul Engel who wrote (50632)	2/23/1999 11:10:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572692

Re: "I am forced to conclude that AMD chose to use their own K63/Pentium III "benchmarks" on their Web Site instead of Anand's - Anand's clearly show the excellent overall Pentium III performance and the STUNNING EFFECTS of the SSE (Katmai) instructions on PERFORMANCE ! If the trade press publicizes this suite of Benchmarks - as they did the intitial K63 Anand tests, AMD is going to suffer some deep embarrassments." anandtech.com What a butt kicking the K63 takes when you see all the benchmarks!!!! Embarrassing is not the word. Shame is the word for the misrepesentation AMD has done on K63 performance. I hope everyone takes the time to read the full set of benchmarks and gets the whole picture. Now you know "the rest of the story" EP

To: Paul Engel who wrote (50632)	2/23/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572692

<<The K63 - which did good in only ONE Windows NT test>> That "one" benchmark is Winstone 99 and the K6-3-450 was a speed grade AHEAD of the Pentium III 500, and it was nearly as fast as a Pentium III with an overclocked bus and CPU running at 560 MHz! This means that the K6-3-450 is the fastest CPU for mainstream business applications available today, even if Intel had already brought out the P3-550. The other NT benchmarks in the review are inconsequential because they only were against the handful of SSE-enabled, Intel-hand-picked applications now available. In fact, Anand reveals his pro-Intel bias by only using SSE-enabled Dragon Naturally Speaking and not also benchmarking the 3DNow!-enabled IBM Via Voice Gold. (He compounds his stupidity by stating that applications like voice recognition will never have 3DNow! support.) Petz