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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marco Polo who wrote (60112)	6/1/1999 3:11:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570880

Re: "I'll take that as a "no", that you can not say the highly-expensive Xeon outperformed the not-so-expensive K7." Sigh... Benjamin, I really would like to put this to rest but if you insist... The Xeon processor is intended for multiprocessor systems doing primarily transaction processing. No one in their right mind would buy one to run desktop applications under Win98. I did not invent the benchmarks that compared the Xeon to the K7. Had I, those benchmarks would not be Win98 based. Nevertheless under the worst possible conditions for the Xeon, doing what it was not intended for, it did beat the K7 on a number of those benchmarks, as did a slower plain vanilla PIII. I can understand how those benchmarks must be embarrassing for those who have bought into the hype. I expect that upon release AMD will have a different set that will be much more to your liking. Myself, I am waiting for independent benchmarks for a shipping system running something other than Win98. I suspect my wait will be considerably longer than yours. EP