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To: Mani1 who wrote (56979)5/2/1999 8:47:00 AM
From: Process Boy  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 1573086
 
Mani and Thread - Register reports K7 vs. PIII benchmarks on 600MHz systems.

theregister.co.uk

This report gives PIII a significant edge on similarly configured systems at 600MHz, with PIII a few % better on Winbench99 / CPUMark99 and ~10% better performance on FPUWinMark. Aren't Register rumors lovely???
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Posted 02/05/99 10:00am by Mike Magee

K7 vs Pentium III benchmarks emerge...now

A hardware research engineer from Acer who does not wish to be named, has provided The Register with some comparative tests between the AMD K7 and the Pentium III.

NB: We're not quite sure why, but the benchmarks did not appear in this story when first posted. Apologies for that. They're now included.

Oh, and BTW, we haven't tested these configurations. The info was supplied by the reader mentioned above. So please don't bombard us with hate mails or love mails -- you're always welcome to post your thoughts on our Message Forum.

Here they come:

K7 Test machine
CPU K7 600MHz (FSB 200MHz x 3.0)
600MHz 128KB L1 Cache 2-way associative
200MHz 512KB L2 Cache 4-way associative
EV6 BUS Controller L2 Cache Speed 1/3 FSB
RAM TI Direct RDRAM 256MB at 600MHz
VGA Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB SGRAM 360MHz RAMDAC
Resolution 1600x1200 32 Bpp 85Hz
Harddisk IBM Ultra3 SCSI 6ms 10.0 GB
Mainboard AMD Sample
Chipset Northbridge AMD Irongate AGP4X
SouthBridge AMD Cobra ATA66 USB 2.0
OS-Windows 2000 Beta 3 WinHEC April 99 Release

P-III Test machine
CPU Pentium III 600MHz (FSB 133MHzx4.5)
600MHz 32KB L1 Cache 4-way associative
600MHz 256KB L2 Cache on-die 4-way associative
RAM TI Direct RDRAM 256MB at 600MHz
VGA Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB SGRAM 360MHz RAMDAC
Resolution 1600x1200 32Bpp 85Hz
Harddisk IBM Ultra3 SCSI 6ms 10.0 GB
Mainboard Intel Sample
Chipset Northbridge FW82820 AGP4X
Southbridge FW82801AA ATA66 USB 2.0
OS-Windows 2000 Beta 3 WinHEC April 99 Release

WinBench99 Version 1.1 (5 times measure) CPUMark99 (CPU Integer Performance does not include MMX register)
- K7@600MHz 68.4 Mark
- Pentium III@600MHz 70.1 Mark

FPUWinMark (CPU Floating Point Performance does not include MMX,SSE,3DNow!,FSTORE Extension register)
- K7@600MHz 2,819 Mark
- Pentium III@600MHz 3,104 Mark

Interesting stuff... ®