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To: RDM who wrote (54673)	4/7/1999 9:29:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576611

<40% advantage> I think you are way too optimistic. Don't be like Elmer who got overexcited from his expectations on major performance breakthrough with 440FX to 440LX intel system controllers, then with SDRAMs as EDO killers, etc, etc. It would be safer to think within 5% ranges. IMO.

To: RDM who wrote (54673)	4/8/1999 12:40:00 AM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 1576611

RDM, Re: "I expect the K7 to get to 20 higher clock than the Pentium III relatively quickly giving a 40% advantage particularly for FPU benchmarks." Well RDM, that's not what some are seeing --> sharkyextreme.com "The (K7) FPU is clearly stronger than the K6-2 or K6-3's, it's about equal in performance to the Intel P3-500's FPU. The integer functionality of the K7 500 is also about equivalent to the P3-500 as well, in general the two CPUs are very close at this point in benchmarks." "If AMD expects to compete at the high end of the CPU marketplace at the same price tag, they better have a part that outperforms the equivalent costing CPU from Intel. Right now they don't. And with the Intel P3-550 three weeks away from its intro, along with the powerful .18micron Coppermine P3-600 coming in August, AMD might be in more trouble then any of us can appreciate." Make It So, Yousef