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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (52711)	3/16/1999 7:05:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577901

Ten, >>>And to think that AMD is renaming the K6-3 as the 'K6-III' in the hopes that it will be put in the same league as the Pentium III.<<< Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Tony

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (52711)	3/16/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1577901

Tench - RE: "And to think that AMD is renaming the K6-3 as the 'K6-III' in the hopes that it will be put in the same league as the Pentium III." Yeah, AMD hoped to put the K6-III in the same league as the PIII, but unfortunately for them, it is one league above the PIII at the same clock speed when running office apps. ;)

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (52711)	3/17/1999 12:19:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1577901

Tench - RE: "And to think that AMD is renaming the K6-3 as the 'K6-III' in the hopes that it will be put in the same league as the Pentium III." More K6-III benchmarks These are from www.tccomputers.com. This is a computer vendor and you can get whatever computer thing you want from them. The tests were by a guy who goes by the name "Big Ed." Since he works at the place, he has access to lots of computer parts. He tested the PII 450 and PIII 500 on various motherboards and compared them to the K6-III 400. Here are the the K6-III results, along with the highest PIII 450 and 500 scores from various motherboards. The PII/III processors are tested on a variety of motherboards. These benchmarks show AMD can market the K6-III against the PIII. 1) = Winstone 99 2) = Winbench 99 CPU 32 Winmark 3) = Bus Graphics @ 800x600 16-bit Color 4) = 3D Winbench 99 a) = various motherboards b) = Asus P2B-B _______________1)_______2)_______3)______4) 400MHz K6-3____21.3_____43.2_____187_____454 450MHz PII_____21.1(a)__35.5(a)__178(a)__476(a) 500MHz PIII____22(b)____38.4(b)__196(a)__481(b) I have already done the dirty work, but if anyone wants to see the benchmarks for themselves, goto tcweb.tccomputers.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (52711)	3/17/1999 8:13:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577901

Re: "Cyrix is lowering their PR rating standards. They know their MII processor has no hope of competing against the Pentium II's speed ratings, so they have to compare their chips to the lower K6-2 standard." Don't forget they're also comparing to the lower Celeron standard as opposed to the PII standard. If they were using the Celeron (and not the PII) standard before, Cyrix would actually have to LOWER (very slightly) its PR ratings, since they are based entirely on integer performance. tomshardware.com If they started comparing to the K6-III instead of the K6-II, they'd have to significantly LOWER their PR ratings. Kevin