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To: Charles R who wrote (60337)	6/2/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1580689

Positive notes on TNT2 performance on K6-3's at Anand's site: anandtech.com NVIDIA's latest build of TNT2 drivers, that will hopefully become available to the public within the next week or so, contain vastly improved 3DNow! enhancements in the code, the results? Well, see for yourself, here is just a glimpse of what AnandTech has been working on in the lab, a full fledged video comparison as well as a K6-3 revisited article are in the works at AnandTech with some extremely pleasing results for all you Super7 users out there. <<performance chart showing 66.5 fps demo1.dm2 @ 16 bit 1024x768 (OpenGL mode) >> Here's something interesting, at the default clock speed of 175/200MHz, the Dynamite TNT2 Ultra on the AMD K6-3 400 is 16% slower than on the Pentium III 500 which has a 25% clock speed advantage over the K6-3 400. Interesting... In looking at the charts, I noticed that there's only a 1% difference in frame rates on the same demo1.dm2 in 32 bit mode -- 49.7 FPS on the K6-3-400 and 50.3 FPS on the PIII-500, again in OpenGL mode! Note that Anand says he'll revisiting the k6-3 shortly; originally his review was the usual "the FPU is no good" repetition, although it did show superior Winbench 99 performance uner both Win98 and WinNT. Petz