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To: Paul Engel who wrote (77389)	3/29/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Further, on APPLICATIONS, such as CAD tests or games, the Intel chips almost universally swamp AMD's best parts. I haven't seen any benchmarks yet for "AMD's best parts", but I'm looking forward to seeing them soon. Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (77389)	4/9/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "Further, on APPLICATIONS, such as CAD tests or games, the Intel chips almost universally swamp AMD's best parts." I guess in Paul's mind Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Netscape, etc. don't count as APPLICATIONS. Maybe this is because they're used by so few of us compared to CAD tests and games. Of course, it is in this small non-CAD/game MINORITY of apps that the K6-III shows it's power. anandtech.com Here we see an (underclocked) 350 MHz K6-III with 1 MB L1 outperforming a PII-400 on Winstone 99. A 400 MHz K6-III comes close to PII-400 performance even when CRIPPLED with a 66 MHz front side bus and ZERO L3 cache (fact of the matter is, that L3 cache is so cheap nowadays most super-7 boards come with at least 1 meg of it). The "perhaps one and maybe two benchmarks" that Paul is referring to are the big ones--Winstone 98 and 99--that incorporate all the most important apps out there, for those of us who don't spend out time a) doing high end CAD work or b) blasting mutant aliens. Kevin