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To: Mani1 who wrote (51736)	3/5/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573922

Intel cheating again: "Due to problems in the benchmark, complicated by certain attributes of the Null driver, the results from Null driver runs do not accurately reflect the performance differences between different CPU architectures. We've discovered that the benchmark is clipping vertices unnecessarily in both the status information that overlays the test images and in the Chapel scene that the 3D Processing suite uses. Further complicating matters, the Null driver exposes a very large guard band to the Direct3D pipeline, effectively moving the cost of clipping some triangles from the CPU to the rasterization hardware. The net effect seems to be that the 3D WinBench 99 processing tests significantly underrate the performance of AMD K6-2 and K6-3 processors, as well as uncached Celeron processors from Intel." benchmarkinsider.com Kevin