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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (57357)	5/5/1999 11:30:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572807

Cirruslvr, Re: Does anyone have any numbers on this??? If you mean the SPEC mark, I have been asking for it again and again. Last I checked, AMD is a member of SPEC but they never ever submit one single report. Always wondering why ? Especially they want to move into the high end and may be workstation/server business where SPEC mark is used as a reference instead of Winstone. Gary

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (57357)	5/5/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1572807

Nice post Cirruslvr, I have seen that before and it brings the point across. You might also consider the rumors of a 1 & 2 Meg onboard L2 Coppermine as well. EP

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (57357)	5/6/1999 2:24:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572807

<We practically do know how well Coppermine will perform, if it contains 32K L1 cache. From intel.com, Intel has benchmarks which compare the mobile PII to the Mobile PII PE, otherwise known as the Coppermine w/o KNI.> Wasn't I the one who brought that to the attention of this thread? But remember, Coppermine will also be featured on the new Camino chipset, which supports AGP-4x and RDRAM. How will that affect the performance of the system itself? I don't know. All we know is that the Pentium III with 256K of on-die cache is better than one with 512K of off-chip cache. Also, moving the cache onto the die makes it a heck of a lot easier to ramp-up the clock speeds. Cost savings is also likely to be significant as well; even the die size will probably be smaller than Mendocino Celeron. Sounds like a win-win for Intel. But will all this help Intel gain the edge over the Mustang K7? I don't know, but you're free to place your bets. Tenchusatsu